The essential question in class was, what should people in power do when their power is threatened? In class we went into groups to predict Metternich's decisions, discussed what really happened and then took notes on the Congress of Vienna.
The powerful people that were at the Congress of Vienna had to come up with a plan to stop future revolutions from arising. One of the ideas they had was to create a Holy Alliance. This idea was led by Czar Alexander of Russia. The idea of the Holy Alliance was that monarchs in every country had the divine right to rule and that any revolution was treason against god. To stop the future revolutions, the great powers of Europe were allowed to send troops into the revolting countries to end the revolutions. The only countries that were allowed to do this was Prussia, Russia, France and Austria because they were bound together by God. England did not want to take part in this intervention.
I think the great powers of Europe did a satisfactory job at the Congress of Vienna. Instead of getting rid of smaller countries, they could have kept the same borders and also kept the Holy Alliance. However I think the Great Powers did an alright job.
Congress of Vienna Map: http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome01/index.php
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