Risorgimento

Question 1

When did Cavour become PM of Piedmont?

Answer 1

1852

Question 2

When was the Crimean War? What part did Piedmont play in it and what did they get out of it?

Answer 2

1853-1856. Closer relationship with NIII.

Question 3

When was the Plombieres agreement? How would Italy be divided according to the agreement?

Answer 3

1858

Question 4

When did Piedmont go to war with Austria? What was the name of the peace called by NIII?

Answer 4

1859. Peace of Villafranca.

Question 5

When were the plebiscites in the Central Duchies and Papal States? What were the outcomes?

Answer 5

1860

Question 6

When was the Treaty of Turin? What were the terms?

Answer 6

1860. Savoy and Nice annexed to France.

Question 7

When did Sicily and Naples vote for Unification?

Answer 7

1861

Question 8

When was the Brigand war? What was it fought over? What does it illustrate?

Answer 8

1861 to 1865. Brigand uprisings in Southern Italy, in protest to government that felt only benefitted the “Mezzogiorno” bourgeois land owners and not peasants - had supported Garibaldi not because of nationalism, but promise of land reform and when not fulfilled they protested. Demonstrates that nationalism was not a key factor in Unification. In Palermo in 1866, 40,000 Italian soldiers were needed to put down Seven and a Half Days Revolt. Organised by disappointed former partisans who had joined Garibaldi’s “Mille”.

Question 9

When did Italy gain Venetia and who from?

Answer 9

1866

Question 10

When did Italian and Prussian troops occupy Rome

Answer 10

1870, during the Franco-Prussian war when the French garrison pulled out.