B2Piedmont Emerge As State To Lead Unification?

Question 1

Reasons why Piedmont emerged as the state to lead unification?

Answer 1

1) ambivalent monarch
2) creating political stability to reassure France and Britain
3) strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers
4) develop diplomacy and challenge Austria

Question 2

By the end of 1849 VEII appointed who to be PM?

Answer 2

Massimo Azeglio

Monarch

Question 3

VEII retained the rights to what?

Answer 3

To command the army and appoint and dismiss ministers at will

(Monarch)

Question 4

When did Siccardi bring in a series of bills which became known as the Siccardi laws?

Answer 4

March 1850
Controlled the power of the church through a range of measures such as: separate law courts for priests were abolished, the right for criminals to seek sanctuary and protection in churches was abolished, religious property rights restricted

(Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain)

Question 5

D’Azeglio’s days were numbered as he had also…

Answer 5

…upset the Pope

Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain

Question 6

When did Cavour make the Parliamentary agreement with the leader of the centre-left Ratazzi, which became known as what?

Answer 6

1851-52
The Connubio

(Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain)

Question 7

D’Azeglio ministry fell when he tried to move to the next stage of anti-clerical measures such as?

Answer 7

Introduce Civil marriage 1852

Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain

Question 8

When was Cavour made PM?

Answer 8

November 1852

Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain

Question 9

When did Cavour begin to attack the wealth of the Church?

Answer 9

1855

Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain

Question 10

How much was the state giving to the church which resulted in what?

Answer 10

5 million lire per year so he proposed the abolition of all monasteries not involved in education or charity
In total 152 monasteries and 1,700 benefices were suppressed, reducing the influence of the church

(Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain)

Question 11

What did Cavour do which crushed radicals?

Answer 11

In February 1853 Cavour warned Austria of an impending Mazzinian uprising receiving a thanks from Vienna
Showed Mazzinian methods as weak

(Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain)

Question 12

How did Cavour use the failures of the Mazzinian revolts?

Answer 12

Used the failures as proof of the unlikelihood of political change being influenced by Mazzini, went further by persecuting Mazzinian democrats, surprising the Mazzini press

(Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain)

Question 13

What did Cavour do in 1855?

Answer 13

Appointed himself to the 3 main posts in the administration: PM, Foreign Minister and Finance Minister. Ensured the government remained stable

(Creating political stability to reassure France and Britain)

Question 14

By 1853 what was linked between which two places, and the building of what?

Answer 14

The electric telegraph linked Turin to Pairs
The building of canals in 1857 boosted the construction industry
(strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers)

Question 15

How many silk workers and cotton workers in Piedmont?

Answer 15

60,000 silk workers
114,000 cotton workers in 1844
(strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers)

Question 16

How much did trade increase by?

Answer 16

300% however, the result of such government growth was debt

strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers

Question 17

What did the public debt rose from in which year to what in which year?

Answer 17

120million Lire in 1847 to 725million Lire by 1859

strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers

Question 18

Name a few counties Cavour made an agreement of free trade with?

Answer 18

Belgium, France and Britain

strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers

Question 19

What did Cavour encourage?

Answer 19

The investment of foreign capital into Piedmont, majority from France
(strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers)

Question 20

A line was built when to link what and was mainly funded by who?

Answer 20

1854 link Milan, Turin, Genoa and French border
By the French banker Rothschild
(strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers)

Question 21

Famous tunnel built from 1857 making through the Alps?

Answer 21

Mount cenis

strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers

Question 22

Italy’s first steamship built in Genoa 1855

Answer 22

“The Sicilia”

strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers

Question 23

By the end of the 1850s how much railway did Piedmont have?

Answer 23

1/3

strengthen the economy and align with foreign powers

Question 24

What was Cavour’s most important contribution to the “Italian question”?

Answer 24

Was that he places it firmly in the context of European diplomacy
(develop diplomacy and challenge Austria)

Question 25

Why was this relative decline of the Austrians based on?

Answer 25

Economic challenges of Prussia and the growth of the Prussian dominated Zollverein an economic free trade arrangement, challenged Austria’s dominance
(develop diplomacy and challenge Austria)

Question 26

As the Crimean War staged into 1855 GB and France asked for what?

Answer 26

Asked Piedmont for reinforcement

develop diplomacy and challenge Austria

Question 27

When did Piedmont enter the Crimean War and how many troops did he have?

Answer 27

January 1855
18,000 Piedmontese troops committed to war
(develop diplomacy and challenge Austria)

Question 28

When was the Peace Treaty in Paris and whilst did it show for Piedmont?

Answer 28

Feb to Apr 1856
Cavours attendance showing Piedmont’s growing diplomatic status
(develop diplomacy and challenge Austria)