B2What Was The Legacy Of The 48/49 Revolts? Flashcards
What was the main legacy of CA?
The Statuto, the one tangible result in Italy
When did VE II succeed his father CA?
March 1849
What do some historians believe about the keeping of the Statuto?
That the Austrians pressured VE into keeping the Statuto so reduce the chances of revolutions against VE and even Austria.
Also the Austrians feared Piedmont might turn to France for help
What did the Statuto give Piedmont which wasn’t experienced any where else’s in Italy?
Political life
What was the % or the Piedmont population who was represented?
2.25% who were literate
What did the king have direct control over?
The army and the rights to appoint and dismiss ministers
Piedmont attracted political refugees from around the rest of Italy in the 1850s, how many from Turin, Genoa?
30,000 including economist Fererra and writer Massari
Mazzini failed to appreciate the revolutionary potential of the…
…peasants because he knew relatively little about them
Mazzini’s ideas were far too intellectual for most people to grasp which meant…
… that his people could not support him as they could not understand his beliefs
What did that liberals deem Mazzini as?
‘Dangerous’
Rich people disliked Mazzini, why?
Because Mazzini wanted to redistribute wealth in Europe and found it unfair
And so his ideas appealed to limited social classes, so alienated important supporters
