Booklet 3: Impact of Garibaldi

Question 1

Who were The Thousand?

Answer 1

More than 1,000 volunteers who rallied behind Garibaldi

Question 2

What was Garibaldi’s aim?

Answer 2

Organise a force to prevent the annexation of Nice to France

Question 3

What happened to his aims instead?

Answer 3

News broke of an insurrection in Sicily in 1860 so was convinced to go south

Question 4

When did Cavour and Garibaldi first meet?

Answer 4

1856

Question 5

Did Cavour and Garibaldi get along?

Answer 5

No, Cavour abhorred the idealism and populism of Garibaldi, and Garibaldi disliked Cavour’s intellectual air

Question 6

Why did Cavour allow Garibaldi to sail south?

Answer 6

Didn’t want to anger anyone at home and keep his political prospects

Question 7

When did Victor Emmanuel II and Garibaldi first meet?

Answer 7

1859, and supposedly got along well

Question 8

Explain the events in Sicily

Answer 8

Garibaldi and his troops land in Marsala, Sicily. Bourbon army defeated in Calatafimi and Palermo is seized

Question 9

Explain the events in Naples

Answer 9

Garibaldi enters Naples in September, victory for Garibaldi at Volturno

Question 10

What do Sicily and Naples do?

Answer 10

Vote for union with Piedmont

Question 11

Explain the events of the Papal States

Answer 11

Piedmont army invades the Papal States in September. Papal army defeated at Castelfidaro

Question 12

When is the Kingdom of Italy declared?

Answer 12

March 1861

Question 13

What did Garibaldi do with Sicily?

Answer 13

Appointed Francesco Crispi as Secretary of State, introducing a series of reformsW

Question 14

What were the reforms in Sicily?

Answer 14

Abolition of unpopular taxing, assault on feudal social structures, programme of modernisation set up

Question 15

Why did Cavour decide to invade the Papal States?

Answer 15

To prevent any further actions on Garibaldi’s behalf as he knew his ultimate target was Rome

Question 16

Where did Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II armies meet and when?

Answer 16

Teano, October 1860

Question 17

What was the result of the meeting at Teano?

Answer 17

Confirmed the Piedmontese annexation of the south as Garibaldi handed his conquests over to VE II

Question 18

What were the results of the plebiscite vote of the south’s annexation to Piedmont?

Answer 18

Huge amount said yes compared to the very little saying no

Question 19

What was the new constitution?

Answer 19

• VE II remained the ‘second’ rather than ‘first’
• Constitutional monarchy
• Chamber of Deputies elected on minimal suffrage
• State’s administrative structure was centralised
• Piedmont’s taxes, ideas of free trade etc were imposed

Question 20

What percent of people could vote?

Answer 20

2%