Booklet 1 - Challenges To Restored Order

Question 1

Who were the Carbonari?

Answer 1

Secret society located in Naples, wanted a constitution

Question 2

Who were the Spillo Negro?

Answer 2

Secretly society located in the Papal States, were Anti-Austrian and liberal

Question 3

Who were the Federati?

Answer 3

Secret society located in the North, anti-Austrian but more moderate

Question 4

What inspired the 1830-32 revolutions?

Answer 4

The French Revolution

Question 5

Where did the 1830-32 revolutions break out?

Answer 5

Modena/Parma and the Papal States

Question 6

Who led revolutions in Modena/Parma, and what was his aim?

Answer 6

Enrico Misley, wanted Duke Francis as the King

Question 7

What events occured in Modena/Parma in the 1830-32 revolutions?

Answer 7

Enrico Misley took the city of Modena and set up a constitution, Parma demanded same so Duchess fled

Question 8

How long did it take for Austria to suppress the 1830-32 revolutions in Modena/Parma?

Answer 8

1 month

Question 9

Who led revolutions in the Papal States 1830-32?

Answer 9

Professional classes

Question 10

What was the difference between revolutions in the Papal States and Modena in 1830-32?

Answer 10

Papal States revolutions more anti-church

Question 11

What occurred as a result of the 1830-32 revolutions in the Papal States?

Answer 11

Government of Italian provinces set up in Bologna, 1831

Question 12

What were the failures of the secret societies 1830?

Answer 12

Different aid, localised

Question 13

What were the strengths of the secret societies 1830?

Answer 13

Well educated, risk lives, inspired leaders

Question 14

Why did the revolutions in the Papal States and Modena not work together?

Answer 14

Papal States refused to help Modena, different aims

Question 15

What were the failures of the 1830-32 revolutions?

Answer 15

No organisation, mainly middle-class (lacked support), Austrian military strength

Question 16

Influence of the Riformisti?

Answer 16

Believed Italy needed to be free from Austrian control to flourish

Question 17

Which journals did the Riformisti use to spread ideas?

Answer 17

Gli Annali and Poleticnico

Question 18

What did the Riformisti stress importance of, with examples?

Answer 18

Economic growth I.e Chianti Wine

Question 19

What were the economic issues within Italy between 1820-1840?

Answer 19

Due to agriculture still being dominant, poor harvests caused rising food prices

Question 20

What was the life expectancy in Naples in 1840s?

Answer 20

24

Question 21

What was Mazzini’s ideology?

Answer 21

Radical - wanted total unification + republic

Question 22

What did Mazzini found in 1831, and when did it dissolve?

Answer 22

Young Italy, dissolved in 1848

Question 23

What did Mazzini first use showing unification?

Answer 23

Tri-colore flag

Question 24

Who was the alternative to Mazzini for revolutionaries in 1830s/40s?

Answer 24

Charles Albert (Piedmont) - strongest state so had power, but only wanted union with the north

Question 25

What was the advantages of the new Pope Pius IX in 1846?

Answer 25

More liberal

Question 26

What is Neo-Guelphism?

Answer 26

Belief of the Pope and Church leading a national revival

Question 27

How many members of the carbonari were there?

Answer 27

60,000