Booklet 2

Question 1

When did VE become King?

Answer 1

March 1849

Question 2

How much of the population were literate?

Answer 2

2.25%

Question 3

How many political refugees in Piedmont from Turin and Genoa during the 1850s?

Answer 3

30,000

Question 4

Which family was VE’s wife from?

Answer 4

Austrian Imperal Family

Question 5

When was Azeglio appointed as PM?

Answer 5

End of 1849

Question 6

How many military men in VE’s first cabinet?

Answer 6

25

Question 7

What were two powers of VE?

Answer 7

1. Could command the army at will
2. Could appoint and dismiss ministers

Question 8

What was one of VE’s first actions as King?

Answer 8

1849 - Shelled rebels in Genoa

Question 9

When were the Siccardi Laws passed? What were they?

Answer 9

March 1850
Signigficantly reduced the power of the Church

Question 10

What was the Concordat?

Answer 10

An agreement between the Church and the State regarding the Siccardi Laws

Question 11

Which clerical member opposed the Siccardi laws?

Answer 11

Archbishop Fransoni (was then imprisoned)

Question 12

Name a right wing Politician upset by the Siccardi laws?

Answer 12

Balbo

Question 13

When did Cavour join d’Azeglio’s government? What position did he have?

Answer 13

October 1850
Minister for Agriculture and Travel

Question 14

What was the Connubio and when was it formed?

Answer 14

A coalition between Cavour and Rattazi

1851-52

Question 15

What did the connubio do?

Answer 15

Stregnthed parliament against the crown

Question 16

What was Rattazi appointed to as a result of the Connubio?

Answer 16

Chamber of Deputies

Question 17

When did Cavour ask to be PM?

Answer 17

Novemeber 1852

Question 18

Who was weakened by the Connubio? How?

Answer 18

d’Azeglio - his govt fell in 1852 following attemots to introduce civil marriage

Question 19

How did Cavour reduce temporal power? How much did this add to state income?

Answer 19

Cloased 152 monastaries and 1700 beneficiaries.

£150,000

Question 20

When was Rattazi sacked from the Chamber of Deputies?

Answer 20

1857

Question 21

When did Cavour supress a revolt in Milan?

Answer 21

Feb 1855

Question 22

What 3 positions did Cavour appoint himself as? When?

Answer 22

Prime Minister
Foreign Minister
Finance Minister

Jan 1855

Question 23

When did Cavour enact financial and military reform?

Answer 23

1852 and 1853 (Used La Mamora for the Army)

Question 24

When was the telegraph built that linked Turin and Paris?

Answer 24

1853

Question 25

How much did Piedmontese trade value increase by?

Answer 25

300%

Question 26

How much did Piedmontese debt rise by in how many years beceause of tech developments?

Answer 26

605 million lire
12 years

Question 27

Where did Piedmont have trade agreements with?

Answer 27

Britain, France and Belgium

Question 28

When was the railway line built that linked Milan, Turin, Genoa and the French Border? Who financed it?

Answer 28

1854
Rothschild

Question 29

When was the Mount Cennis Tunnel built? Who financed this?

Answer 29

1857
Rothschild and Laffitte

Question 30

How much railway in Piedmont by the end of 1850s?

Answer 30

819km
(1/3 of all railway in Italy)

Question 31

What trade agreement undermined Austrian control in Germany? How?

Answer 31

The Zollverein
It promoted free trade within Germany.

Question 32

When did Italy join the Crimean war?

Answer 32

Jan 1855

Question 33

How many troops did Italy send to the Crimean war?

Answer 33

18,000

Question 34

When was the Italian Question discussed at the Congress of Paris?

Answer 34

April 8th 1856

Question 35

Who supported Italy because of the Crimean war?

Answer 35

Britain and France

Question 36

Which Italian general led troops in the Crimean war?

Answer 36

La Mamora

Question 37

Which battle in the Crimean war was influential for gaining British/French support?

Answer 37

Battle of Chernaya