Cavour & Piedmont

Question 1

When was Cavour appointed?

Answer 1

1852

Question 2

What anti-clerical measures did he take in 1855?

Answer 2

• suppressed 152 monasteries and 1,700 beneficiaries

- added £145,640 to state income

Question 3

Why did Cavour end the Connubio?

Answer 3

1857, when the right increased their votes due to sympathy for the church, it was to create stability

Question 4

What did he do in February 1853?

Answer 4

warned Austria of a Mazzinian uprising in Milan

Question 5

What did he use as evidence that Mazzinian leadership was weak?

Answer 5

Feb 1853, failed uprisings in 1857

Question 6

What was Cavour willing to do to government?

Answer 6

override them when it got in his way

Question 7

What positions did he appoint himself?

Answer 7

prime minister
foreign minister
finance minister

Question 8

When did Piedmont get involved with the Crimean war?

Answer 8

1854

Question 9

When did Piedmont actually join the Crimean war?

Answer 9

• Jan 1855, under pressure from VE

- sent 18,000 troops

Question 10

When was the Congress of Paris?

Answer 10

Feb-April 1856

Question 11

What did Piedmont’s attendance at the Congress of Paris show?

Answer 11

Piedmont’s growing diplomatic status

Question 12

When was the Italian question brought up at the Congress of Paris?

Answer 12

April 8th 1856

Question 13

What did GB and France owe to Piedmont due to Crimea?

Answer 13

A favour

Question 14

What was the membership of the National Society?

Answer 14

8,000 by 1857

Question 15

When did Cavour meet with Manin?

Answer 15

1856, same year he met with Garibaldi

Question 16

When was the Pact of Plombieres?

Answer 16

21st July 1858

Question 17

What was the Pact of Plombieres?

Answer 17

an agreement between Cavour & Napoleon to draw up plans for French intervention to expel Austria from Northern Italy

Question 18

When did Cavour die?

Answer 18

1861

Question 19

What did the National Society do during the Second war of independence, 1859?

Answer 19

encouraged change in Central Duchies

Question 20

When did Cavour return as PM?

Answer 20

21st Jan 1860 to negotiate the Treaty of Turin

Question 21

What was agreed at the Treaty of Turin?

Answer 21

Savoy and Nice handed over to France if Nap agreed to Piedmontese annexation of Central Duchies

Question 22

What did Garibaldi’s actions in south force Cavour to do?

Answer 22

March troops through the Papal states