Booklet 4: Problem of Rome

Question 1

When was the September Convention?

Answer 1

1864

Question 2

What was the September Convention?

Answer 2

Between VE II and Napoleon, the Papacy would be allowed to recruit a garrison of 10,000 soldiers and the French troops would leave Rome within 2 years

Question 3

What was the Italian side of the September Convention?

Answer 3

Promised not to attack Rome and make Florence its capital rather than Turin

Question 4

Why did French troops return in 1867?

Answer 4

Garibaldi tried to seize Rome in 1867

Question 5

When did the garrison remain until?

Answer 5

1870

Question 6

When else did Garibaldi try to seize Rome?

Answer 6

1862, but him and his army were stopped in their tracks, Garibaldi shot in the foot

Question 7

Why do many think that Rome did not wish to be part of united Italy?

Answer 7

Citizens of Rome did not rise to the cause of liberation

Question 8

What was the impact of the Franco-Prussian war?

Answer 8

Weakened Napoleon and the French, departure of the French garrison from Rome

Question 9

What was the importance of a weakened France?

Answer 9

Italy took this opportunity to seize Rome

Question 10

What was the result?

Answer 10

The battle was short with the Italian army lost 49 men, Papal army losing 19

Question 11

What was the Plebiscite results of the annexation of Rome to Italy?

Answer 11

133,600 to 1,500

Question 12

When was Rome annexed to Italy?

Answer 12

October 1870

Question 13

What was Rome declared?

Answer 13

Capital of Italy