B4 Obstacles: Economic and Social Backwardness

Question 1

Cavour’s policies had left Italy with a debt of more than

Answer 1

2,400 million lire

Question 2

unpopular taxes include:

Answer 2

1865 Flour Tax

Question 3

by 1865, over ___ of Italian bonds were in foreign hands

Answer 3

1/3

Question 4

most railway shares were owned by

Answer 4

foreigners

Question 5

when was the Grist Tax introduced

Answer 5

1868

Question 6

what was the Grist Tax

Answer 6

tax on the milling of corn, which led to 250 deaths and 1000 wounded in riots

Question 7

the state also tried to raise taxes through…

Answer 7

the sale of (church) land

Question 8

who bought church land in the south

Answer 8

mainly middle classes

Question 9

____% of each year’s produce was used for debt repayment

Answer 9

30

Question 10

how many people employed in industry in 1861

Answer 10

only 3 million - 80% of which were women and children

Question 11

italy lacking in natural resources

Answer 11

short of coal

Question 12

why was there little interest in canals

Answer 12

due to Italy’s topography

Question 13

milan was linked by major roads to..

Answer 13

other european cities

Question 14

by unification there was less than.. km of railway

Answer 14

3000

Question 15

in 1865 the railways..

Answer 15

passed into private hands

Question 16

how was a dual economy created

Answer 16

mount cenis tunnel linked with france, but only with the north