Obstacles To Unification Flashcards
1
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Obstacles to unification
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Foreign powers Political weakness Papacy Southern question Piedmontisation Brigands war
2
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Foreign powers
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French troops in Rome
Austria in Venetia
3
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Political weakness
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5 weak PMs
Cavour died of malaria
Ignorant of Italian politicised
4
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The papacy
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Pope lost 2/3 land to new kingdom 1861
Fractious cohabitation
Syllabus of errors (church control education and science)
5
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Southern questions
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Corrupt voting 1860 Didn’t know what they were voting for Casati laws Garibaldi promised land reform Crushed opposition in the south
6
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Piedmontisation
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Everything the same, weights and measures
Shows ignorance
Cavour never gone further south than Tuscany
7
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Brigands war
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1861-65 Increase tax=unrest Robbed murdered and assisnated 82,000 brigands by 1862 Died down
