piedmontese

Question 1

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Answer 1

• In the 1840s the Piedmontese textile industry thrived, due to a lack of coal in Northern Italy, there was also a lack of
5000 M
factories so both the wool and silk industries were domestic industries.

Question 2

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Answer 2

There were 60000 silk workers and about 114000 cotton workers in 1844 in Piedmont. Wealth was
5000
being created.

Question 3

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Answer 3

Trade increased by 300%

Question 4

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Answer 4

Piedmont had 819 km of railway by the end of the 1850s
6000
(the whole of Italy put together only had 1,798 km).

Question 5

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Answer 5

Piedmont had 1/3 of the peninsula’s railway by the end of the 1850s.

Question 6

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Answer 6

• In 1854 a line was built to link Milan, Turin, Genoa and the French Border. Much of this line was funded by the French capitalist and banker Rothschild.

Question 7

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Answer 7

Piedmont built Italy’s first steam ship “The Sicilia” in Genoa in 1855. Italy’s first home built steam locomotives were built in the same year.

Question 8

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Answer 8

The tunnel through Mount Cenis was being built from 1857, making a crossing through the Alps. This too was financed by a number of Parisian based bankers including Rothschild and Laffitte.

Question 9

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Answer 9

The Port of Genoa was modernised.

Question 10

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Answer 10

The public debt of Piedmont rose from 120 million Lire in 1847 to 725 million Lire by 1859.

Question 11

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Answer 11

By 1853 the electric telegraph linked Turin to Paris.
• Construction of the Cavour Canal began in 1857