Answer four of the questions below on Metternich's "Confession of Political Faith" of 1820:
1) What does Metternich believe to be the true basis of government and human affairs?
2) How and in what way does he claim that these true basis are being corroded in his own time?
3) What according to Metternich were the causes of the French Revolution?
4) Who are the people that Metternich holds responsible for political demands and agitation that led to revolution, and what does he see as their motivations?
5) How according to Metternich should European rulers respond to demands for constitutional and representative government?
Answer two of the following questions on the "Defense of laissez-faire" of 1840:
1) How according to this author should child labor be controlled?
2) What according to the 1840 "Defense of Laissez-faire" does experience show about the effects of economic regulation?
Compare and contrast the following:
Describe how the economic principles in items 12, 15 and 16 of the US Republican Party's platform of 1860 differed from the principles of laissez-faire capitalism outlined in the "Defense" mentioned above.
Answer two of the following questions based on John Merriman's A History of Modern Europe:
1) Identify some of the reforms in state administration and state finances introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte during his rule in France discussed in Chap 13 of Merriman's textbook.
2) What were some of the motivations behind Napoleon's reform of education identified in chapter13 of Merriman?
3) What importance did railway construction have in the early industrial revolution in Europe according to chapter 14 of the Merriman text?