“Cavour’s development of the socio-economic and political systems of Piedmont helped to further national unity” How far do you agree with this statement. Flashcards
What should be clarified in the introduction?
what is meant by unity – direct or indirect?
What should be suggested in the introduction?
Very little evidence to suggest that Cavour was doing anything other than expanding Piedmont’s influence in the North and any moves towards unity were purely coincidental.
What four factors suggest that Cavour furthered unity?
1) commercial and Industrial growth
2) Infrastructure expansion
3) Diplomatic relations
4) Trade agreements
What four factors suggest that Cavour did not further unity?
1) Setting up the connubial
2) Economic system – Anti clericalism
3) Reducing opposition – crushing the radicals
4) Overriding of parliament
Cavour created a telephone link between which two cities?
Turin and Paris
During the 1850s, what fact showed how attracted foreign powers were becoming to Italy?
Trade increased by 300% in the 1850s.
How many silk workers in Piedmont?
60,000
How many cotton workers in Piedmont?
114,000
When was the Cavour canal built?
1857
How did Piedmont’s extensive economic success help unity?
This helped unity as workers would come to Piedmont to find work and other states would see Piedmont’s success and want to be part of it.
What was the conundrum regarding Cavour’s foreign policy?
Cavour was not an instinctive nationalist but disliked Austrian behaviour in Lombardy and felt that they provoked Italian nationalists. Cavour’s political Foreign Policy remained anti- Austrian yet he was also mindful that Piedmont’s isolationists needed appeasing.
Name a Piedmontese isolationist?
Margherita
How can Cavour’s approach to nationalism be described?
RealPolitik
which is the area that suggests that Cavour was intent on furthering national unity most?
Diplomatic relations
When was the Crimean war
1854
When did Cavour get involved in the Crimean war?
1855
How many troops did Cavour send to the Crimean war?
15 000
What did the involvement of Cavour in the 1854 Crimean War give him in 1856?
A seat on 1856 Congress of Paris
What did the Crimean War mark?
A watershed in Austrian power
What did the Piedmontese involvement in the Crimean War mean for Franco/British - Piedmont relations?
France and Britain were indebted to Piedmont
How valuable was the support of Britain and France to the cause of Italian unity?
Whilst neither Britain nor France sympathised with Austrian dominance in the North of Italy, in the short term they did not challenge them. In the medium term, however, their support would be crucial to any Piedmontese challenge to the Austrian dominated order in Northern Italy.
When was the Congress of Paris?
1856
What about the Crimean War 1854 demonstrates how cautious Cavour was towards nationalism?
They were Piedmontese troops not Italian
