<p>Hey guys, I have to write an essay on the prompt
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"How did the congress of vienna affect Europe socially and economically?"**</p>
<p>I'm going black here.. I know that Congress of Vienna, aka Concert of Europe is the first time the nations worked together to maintain balance of power. </p>
<p>Can anyone else here give me some ideas?</p>
<p>Better posted in the High School forum...</p>
<p>Eww congress of vienna...I pity you. Here's a little something:</p>
<p>The settlements reached in 1815 at the Vienna Congress had restored Austrian domination over the Italian peninsula but had left Italy completely fragmented . The Congress had divided the territory among a number of European nations and the victors of the Napoleonic Wars. The Kingdom of Sardinia recovered Piedmont (Piemonte), Nice, and Savoy and acquired Genoa. </p>
<p>The movement for Italian freedom and unification, became widely known as the Risorgimento (Italian for "revival").</p>
<p>After the Congress of Vienna, the Carbonari (Charcoal Burners), a secret society of liberal nationalists sparked a revolt in Naples while middle class liberals (somewhat less conspiratorial), pushed for reform in Piedmont – Sardinia in 1830. Venetia and Lombardy, the Austrian dominated states, were equally troublesome; and, in March 1848 both rebelled once more against Austria while conservative regimes throughout the peninsula, especially in the Papal States, were struck as well. This upsurge was the work of secret societies committed to cultural nationalism and stoutly middle class groups dedicated to political reform. These two movements led, over the next two decades, to the unification of Italy. The whole era, with intellectual roots in the 18th century was called the Risorgimento. There were three ideas about how Italy might be unified: 1) the radicals followed the lead of Giuseppe Mazzini & his secret society Young Italy (1831). His program was republican and anti clerical, with some social & economic reforms. Mazzini was an intellectual and his notions were more idealistic than practical. His poetry was inspirational but his political science was not on par with the brilliant 16th century theorist from Florence. 2) At the opposite end of the spectrum was a conservative and clerical movement to bring about a federation of Italy under papal leadership (Neo Guelphs), Gheoberti was their chief spokesman. 3) The third group would be best described as moderate liberals – typically they were men of property and engaged in commerce and industry in northern Italy. They favored a constitutional monarchy not unlike the English model and by the 1840s they saw Piedmont and King Victor Emmanuel II as the logical consolidator of an Italian state. Both the Mazzini republicans and the liberal constitutionalists were dedicated to the formation of a secular state and opposed the Neo Guelphs. In 1848 Piedmont advanced against the Austrians in Lombardy and was driven back. In fact after barricades were thrown up they were thrown down by Austrian troops who re-established Imperial suzerainty in Lombardy and Venetia. Only in Rome did events take a unique turn.</p>
<p>Mallomar, I hope u haven't written that all by urself from memory! Well, I'd rather do a google search and there's a thread at AP section where u'll find links to great AP sites, and there r some GREAT AP Euro links!</p>
<p>stressed0ut said he's going black here, MallomarCookie, so you've got to include some yo's and fo' shizzle's in your response, as well as references to ludes and oral sex.</p>
<p>I hate to end this with the required "just kidding" but... just kidding...</p>
<p>oh ****ttttttttttttttt!</p>
<p>Sorry people.... i meant blank</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Haha yeah I saw that black thing too. I thought you meant, "everything's going black" as in "blacking out" or something desperate-sounding like that.</p>
<p>Tsk.</p>
<p>thanks for the long post, MallomarCookie...</p>
<p>I don't think I understood everything you typed though.. </p>
<p>How did the Congress of Vienna change europe?</p>
<p>Change europe? I dunno..the question said "socially and economically" so I gave you some stuff about the risorgimento in Italy since that involved social and economic reformers</p>
<p>well, definitely it changed Europe, (I had Euro last semester and am going to give AP this May but still forgot! well, I can remember that it had great impact. Evrything will be easily described in one of the websites.....</p>