Booklet 4 Italy Flashcards
Foreign Powers
When was the September convention? What did it do?
1864
Napoleon agreed to evacuate Rome in return for Florence being made the capital
Foreign Powers
How many people died rioting over the change of capital?
23
Foreign Powers
What did Cavour do to try and gain Venetia? What was the outcome?
Encourage a Hungarian uprising
Failed
Foreign Powers
When did Prussia make the free trade agreement with France that weakened Austria?
1862
Piedmontisation
How many Naples decrees changed in how long? When?
53 decrees in 2 days
Feb 1861
Piedmontisation
How many monasteries dissolved to finance education?
2382
Piedmontisation
Where was promised its own legal system that never got one? Who was to blame?
Lombardy
La Mamora
Piedmontisation
Who retained control in what area?
Ricasoli in Tuscany
Socio-economic problems
How much debt by 1861?
2.45 billion lire (doubled in 4years)
Socio-economic problems
When was the Flour Tax?
1865
Socio-economic problems
By 1860, what proportion of Italian bonds in foreign hands?
1/3
Socio-economic problems
When was the Grist Tax? What was the result of the riots because of this?
1868
250 deaths/1000 wounded
Socio-economic problems
When was 9 million acres of church land sold in 9 years?
1867
Socio-economic problems
How many people employed? What percent of this was women and children?
3 million employed
80% women and children
Political weakness
When did Cavour die?
June 1861
Political weakness
How many PMs in how many years? Name them:
5 in 5
Riccasoli, Rattazi, Farini, Minghetti, La Mamora
Political weakness
Which PM attacked Garibaldi after the creation for the Society for the Emancipation of Rome? When?
Rattazi
1862
Political weakness
What did Mazzini describe the new Italy as?
A sham
Political weakness
How many people elected the all male parliament?
2% of population
The Papacy
How much of his land has the Pope lost because of Cavour?
2/3
The Papacy
Which two people threatened the Church’s position?
Darwin and Renan
The Papacy
When was the Syllabus of Errors?
1864
The Papacy
When was the Dogma of Papal Infallibility?
1870
The Papacy
When did the Pope declare himself a prisoner in the Vatican?
1870