Italy Booklet 4: Consolidating the Kingdom of Italy 1861-70

Question 1

What was obstacle number one to a fully unified Italy?

Answer 1

The French and Austrians

Question 2

What year was the September Convention?

Answer 2

1864

Question 3

What did the September Convention do?

Answer 3

It meant that Napoleon agreed to evacuate Rome in return for the switch of the Italian capital from Turin to Florence.

Question 4

How many people died in riots as a result of Minghetti agreeing to the September Convention?

Answer 4

23 people died

Question 5

What did Cavour try to do to weaken Austria’s power?

Answer 5

Tried to encourage Hungarian revolutionary leaders to start uprisings - came to nothing

Question 6

What was the second obstacle to Italian unity?

Answer 6

The death of Cavour and political weakness

Question 7

When did Cavour die?

Answer 7

June 1861

Question 8

How many prime ministers were there in how many years leading Italy?

Answer 8

10 PMs in 10 years

Question 9

Which PM tried to stab the King?

Answer 9

Farini

Question 10

What % of people could vote?

Answer 10

2% of the population. (only rich men could vote)

Question 11

How many members of parliament were elected by how many voters?

Answer 11

443 members elected by 150,000 voters

Question 12

When was a single legal criminal code put in place for the whole of Italy?

Answer 12

1865

Question 13

What was formed that shows Italian unity?

Answer 13

A unified navy and army

Question 14

What came under state control to create a unified system?

Answer 14

schools and universities

Question 15

What was a third obstacle to Italian unity?

Answer 15

The Papacy

Question 16

What fraction of land had the pope lost to the new kingdom?

Answer 16

2/3

Question 17

What was the period of hatred between the Church and State known as?

Answer 17

Fractious Cohabitation

Question 18

When was the Syllabus of Errors created?

Answer 18

1870

Question 19

What did the Syllabus of Errors say?

Answer 19

-The Church would keep control of education
-Reasserted its temporal power
-dismissed other religions and modernisation

Question 20

What was the Dogma of Papal Infallibility?

Answer 20

Stated that the pope would always be right and should never be challenged. All the pope’s decisions were indisputable

Question 21

When did the Vatican council meet and agree to the Dogma of Papal Infallibility?

Answer 21

1869

Question 22

Who replaced Cavour when he died?

Answer 22

Ricasoli

Question 23

Why did the Great powers support Austrian control of Venetia?

Answer 23

so the powers in Europe were balanced

Question 24

What was the name of the law passes by the government to try and appease the pope?

Answer 24

The Law of Guarantees

Question 25

How did Italy pay for the 1866 war?

Answer 25

selling church land

Question 26

Who led the Italian army when they took Rome in 1870?

Answer 26

General Cadorna

Question 27

How many soldiers died during the taking of Rome?

Answer 27

49

Question 28

What organisation was set up in 1861 to campaign for Venetia?

Answer 28

Italian Freedom Association

Question 29

What was the name of Garibaldi's supporter arrested on the boarder of Austria?

Answer 29

Nullo

Question 30

How did Garibaldi try to make the issue of Venetia international in 1864?

Answer 30

he visited London to spread awareness

Question 31

What was agreed at the meeting between Bismarck and Govone in Berlin?

Answer 31

Italy was t get Venetia for the contributions in the war

Question 32

When did Garibaldi first try and take Rome and where was he injured?

Answer 32

-1862 -shot in the foot

Question 33

What % of children died before their 5th birthday in 1871?

Answer 33

50%

Question 34

What % of infants died before their 1st birthday in 1871?

Answer 34

22.7%

Question 35

In 1871 how many Italians emigrated?

Answer 35

120,000

Question 36

What is an example of a tax put in place to tax the poor?

Answer 36

the Grist Tax

Question 37

What did the Law of Guarantees give the pope?

Answer 37

- his own postal service -full religious power -his representatives in the Vatican had full diplomatic status -3,225,000 lire per year as compensation for loss of land

Question 38

From 1970 there were two courts in Rome. Where were they?

Answer 38

one in the Quirinale Palace and one at the Vatican

Question 39

What is Irredentism?

Answer 39

The belief that Italy wasn't complete

Question 40

In 1871 how many people could vote? What % of the population was that?

Answer 40

500,000 people only 2.2% of population

Question 41

What % of people who were eligible to vote, actually did so?

Answer 41

60%