Wednesday, December 7, 2011

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA AND THE RESTORATION

Today we've started the class checking the last exercises. One of them was based in many concepts like "guerrilla". And the other was based in the events that happened in Spain during the Peninsular War. After Paqui has explained us what points are going to take part in the exam: the last two pages of the last unit and points one and two of this unit:
  • B) THE ABSOLUTE MONCARCHY OF PHILIP V AND FERDINAND VI
  • 1. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
  • 2. SPAIN DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
After we've started talking about the third point of this unit THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA AND THE RESTORATION.
Paqui has said us Joseph I was supported by the Francophiles (Frenchified).
We've could see Cortes of Cadiz had the same proposes than Madrid: Passing a lot of laws to end the Ancien Régime.
Today we've learnt a little bit of vocabulary. For example:
-Fright means "susto".
We've done a scheme that summarizes everything:
Participants of the Congress of Vienna were delegates for all the countries taht had defeat Napoleon. For example: TALLEIRAND (France) WELLINGTON (Great Britain), METTERNICH (Austria)
The Congress of Vienna's objectives were:
- Go back to the Ancien Régime and erase the remains of the French Revolution
- Remodel the map of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars
And their decisions were:
- Give the thrones back to all the monarchs deposed by Napoleon. Example: Louis XVIII became king of France and Ferdinand VII came back to Spain.
-Creation of the Holly Alliance to preserve absolutism and religion in Europe. Formed by Austria, Russia and Prussia.
-Changes in the map of Europe:
  • France came back to its frontiers in 1791.
  • Two buffer States (estados tapón) were created in France's borders: the United Kingdom of Netherlands and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.
  • Poland, Finland and Bessarabia were annexed to Russia.
  • A German Confederation united all the Germanic States
  • The United Kingdom got the control of some strategic points in different seas and oceans
After this scheme the time of the class was finished.

GOOD LUCK IN THE EXAM FOR EVERYONE :)
Bye

4 comments:

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Sara,

Review the spelling and include the source of the picture, please.

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello Sara,

You haven´t corrected the spelling mistakes and you haven´t included the source of the picture. You have to correct more things about the content:

- You´ve mixed the correction of the exercises with the new contents (the Congress of Vienna). You should put all about the exercises first and together and later you can start writing about the Congress of Vienna.

- I don´t understand what you´ve written about the Cortes of Cádiz. The Cortes of Cádiz wrote the Constitution of 1812 and also passed a lot of laws that ended with the Ancien Régime in Spain. Their purpose was the same the French revolutionaries had in France when they created the National Assembly in 1789. But remember that these laws didn´t come in force due to the war and the same happened with the laws passed by Joseph I from Madrid.

- You haven´t talked about the content of the Constitution and what I explained about indirect universal male suffrage.

- "Frenchified" is another word that can be used to refer to the Spaniards who supported Joseph I.

- You have to correct some verb tenses: in English you can say "say something to someone " or "tell someone something". You can´t write "she has said us". And what is the past participle of defeat?

That´s all. See you on Monday.

Isabel said...

Hi Sara! I can't find any more mistakes. I hope all of you get a good mark in tomorow's exam! Luky for every one. Kisses!!

Isabel said...

Hi Sara! I can't find any more mistakes. I hope all of you get a good mark in tomorow's exam! Luky for every one. Kisses!!