Role Of VE II During The Unification Process?

Question 1

What did Victor Emmanuel allow?

Answer 1

The Statuto

Question 2

What did the keeping of the Statuto lead to?

Answer 2

30,000 nationalist exiles came to Piedmont

Question 3

Why shouldn’t Statuto be exaggerated?

Answer 3

The upper chamber was appointed by the king and the lower chamber only represented 2.25% of the population who were literate

Question 4

What’s 30,000 in Turin and Genoa in the 1850s included the which Economist? and which writer?

Answer 4

Ferrera and Massari

Question 5

What examples meant that there was little in the background to justify nationalist hope for Victor Emmanuel?

Answer 5

His mother and wife were both members of the Austrian imperial family. One of his first actions as king was to shell Genoa where radicals were entrenched

Question 6

What could be said about Victor Emmanuel to begin with?

Answer 6

Symbolic

Question 7

What do some historians argue, the reason for why Victor Emmanuel kept the Statuto and not truly nationalistic?

Answer 7

Felt pressured by the Austrians feared that if it was removed this can lead to an uprising against Victor Emmanuel and the Austrians again

Question 8

What was one of the aspects the Statuto gave the ruling Monarch relating to policy?

Answer 8

Article 5 gave sole control over foreign policy Victor Emmanuel in the background to apply pressure on Cavour

Question 9

For the end of 1849 VE had appointed who as prime minister?

Answer 9

Massimo Azeglio

Question 10

What were VE and Azeglio both upset about?

Answer 10

The behaviour of the Church in 1848 when they had abandoned Charles Albert

Question 11

What was the name of the series of anti-clerical laws that were brought in and when?

Answer 11

March 1850

Siccardi laws

Question 12

1851-52 Cavour made a parliamentary agreement with the leader of the centre-left Ratazzi. What was this called?

Answer 12

Connubio

Question 13

The Connubio undermined Azeglio and what happened in Nov 1852?

Answer 13

Cavour asked VE II to make him PM which was accepted

Question 14

What essentially led to the Piedmont’s involvement in the Crimean War?

Answer 14

It was VE who pushed for its involvement, who threatened to sack Cavour for Revel who was more pro war than Cavour

Question 15

At the meeting in Plombieres the participants also agreed on the matrimonial union between the two really houses to consolidate the alliance what was it?

Answer 15

Marriage of VE eldest daughter Clotilde and Napoleon III’s cousin, Jerome

Question 16

What was the impact of the marriage between the two reigning houses?

Answer 16

Major contribution, relationship between the French and Piedmont. Bonaparte married into Royalty

Question 17

When and where was the marriage between Clotilde and Jerome approved and celebrated?

Answer 17

Jan 1859 Turin

Question 18

When did VE meet Garibaldi for the first time?

Answer 18

March 1859 and they got on well

Question 19

What essentially stopped Garibaldi from attacking Rome in 1859?

Answer 19

Loyalty to the king following Villafranca

Question 20

Garibaldi invaded main land Naples in August 1860 he did so in the name of who?

Answer 20

VE and Italy

Question 21

How did the king react to the efforts of Garibaldi?

Answer 21

Hailed G efforts in the South which forced Cavour to go along with the events

Question 22

VE opinion and reaction to the actions of G which may have prevented what?

Answer 22

Cavour from causing any action as he didn’t want to upset VE either

Question 23

From October 3rd 1860 what did VE do which was seen as heroic and patriotic?

Answer 23

Led the Piedmontese army in person and helped to defeat the papal troops in the Papal States

Question 24

When G handed over the land of the South to VE what had VE rejected?

Answer 24

VE rejected G calls to be made viceroy of the south

Question 25

If G was put in control of the South what could this have prevented?

Answer 25

Brigands war and social problems down South

Question 26

What had VE refused with Napoleon?

Answer 26

Napoleon’s suggestion to return parts of the Papal States to the Pope in 1860 in return for French withdrawal

Question 27

What had VE negotiated instead of accepting Napoleons first suggestion?

Answer 27

The September Convention 1864 with Nap III which would lead to French withdrawal from Rome

Question 28

What did the papacy not recognise?

Answer 28

VE position as king

Question 29

What had VE encouraged G to do?

Answer 29

Destabilise Austrian rule in Venice

Question 30

Essentially VE was more talk than action. What did he do during the 1866 War?

Answer 30

Took personal control of the armed forces and therefore faced criticism for his failures

Question 31

After the Kingdom of Italy was established what had VE continued?

(Negative Symbolic)

Answer 31

Continued on as King VE II instead of VE I of Italy. Which was a terrible move and was not indicative of a fresh start that the Italian people had wanted