AP European History Chapter 17: 1850-1879 Section 1: 1850-1859 Political History By Dallin F. Hardy Political Theory
Frederic Bastiat
French political theorist The Law
1850
Frederic Bastiat
Principles of
Limited government
Freedom
Liberty
Minarchism
A minimal state limited to protecting natural rights Natural Rights
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.”
Frederic Bastiat
The Law Liberty
“…The freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so…”
Frederic Bastiat
The Law Non-Aggression Principle Individuals are free from the initiation of force Legal Plunder
“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it—without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.”
Frederic Bastiat
The Law
Herbert Spencer
English political philosopher and scientist Social Statics
1851
Herbert Spencer On Liberty
1859
John Stuart Mill France
Coup d'état of 1852
December 2, 1852
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III
1852-1870
Emperor of France Second French Empire
1852-1870 Ottoman Empire
“Sick man of Europe”
1853
Ottoman Empire
Term coined by
John Russell Crimean War
Crimean War
1853-1856
Britain & France Declare War on Russia
March 28, 1854
Siege of Sevastopol
October 17, 1854-1855 Battle of Balaclava
October 25, 1854
Charge of the Light Brigade Russia
Alexander II
1855-1881
Emperor of Russia Expansion of Russia
1855 Crimean War
Treaty of Paris
1856
Piedmont-Sardinia
Camillo Cavour
1852-1861
Prime Minister of Piedmont-Sardinia
Camillo Benso
Count of Cavour
Plombières Agreement
1858
Between
France
Piedmont-Sardinia
Second Italian War for Independence
1859
Austro-Italian War Battle of Magenta
June 4, 1859 Battle of Solferino
June 24, 1859 Armistice Villafranca
1859 Uniting with Piedmont
1859 Britain
Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
1854
London
British Empire
Second Opium War
1856-1860
China Indian Rebellion of 1857
1857 Crown Rule in India
1858-1947
British Raj Africa
South African Republic
1852-1902