Congress of Vienna

In the 1800’s, there was a vast amount of revolutions. it all started when the people in power started getting their power challenged. It all started with France, who was the figurative sneeze of the revolutions. It was a sneeze because it was the first symptom of the flu, which was the Revolution.

When people are in high seats of power, people will try to steal their spot, or outshine them. When these leaders are threatened, what should they do? To find out, as a class, we first split into groups. Then we were presented with a problem and as a group had to decide what the best action to do was. we put our choice on a sticky note and put them on the whiteboard and saw what the other groups chose. Then Ms. Bailey showed what actually happened.     

When Napoleon was defeated, Metternich and the other powerful people at the congress of Vienna had to make sure something of that aptitude could never happen again. One idea they had was the Holy Alliance. This idea was that during an uprising, all other states had to help the country where the revolution was. It reemphasized the idea of divine right and the official rule was by “the grace of God”. All acts of treason was against god, and therefore all acts of revolution would crushed. This happened in Italy in the 1820s. There was an uprising that wanted to split Italy into its own individual country, but the Austrian government took action and defeated them.                        

The Congress of Vienna most certainly made the right choice by establishing these rules so nothing like Napoleon could happen again. Although the countries had less freedom, they had to make sure this didn't happen again.