Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Conservative

Recently we learned about ideologies in 19th century Europe. In 19th century Europe, there were 3 major political ideologies, which were Liberalism, Nationalism, and Conservative. In class we looked at some articles to learn about each ideology. Then we split into 6 groups, with 2 groups being assigned the same ideology. We then used different video applications to show the other groups what we learned about our ideology.

Here is our YouTube video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpyw8AVGr6Y&list=UU2UjVlAbk83TSCHhVK-RmYw

The ideology we were assigned was liberalism. Liberalism helped to create governments that were based more on freedom, rights, and merits. People were allowed to climb the social and economic ladder. It was mainly for middle class people. In Italy, liberalism restricted the power of the clergy. This happened in other Roman Catholic Church countries, like Spain and France.

The other two ideologies were nationalism and conservative. Nationalism governments united smaller states into a whole country, like Italy. The states shared common bonds like beliefs, traditions, and languages. Many nationalist governments helped unite the states to fight a common enemy, such as a foreign ruler. Conservative governments believed that the government should be monarchy since it was tradition, and tradition worked best. Aristocracy, church power (Roman Catholic), and monarchies held the power.