The rise of Piedmont - 1850 - 1858

Question 1

When were the siccardi laws introduced and what did they do?

Answer 1

1850, they significantly decreased church powers

Question 2

What does Cavour create in the House of Representatives?

Answer 2

The connubio - a balance between the left and right

Question 3

How many monasteries were closed due to Cavour’s anti clerical reform in 1855?

Answer 3

152, who could not prove their charitable work

Question 4

How did Cavour make the government more stable?

What year did he do this?

Answer 4

Sacked Rattazzi and ended the connubio

1857

Question 5

What did Cavour do to limit Mazzini’s success/ influence in Piedmont?

Answer 5

1853 - warned Austria about mazzinian revolt in Lombardy

1857 - revolts in Genoa that failed - Cavour used these to persecute Mazzzini and demonstrate his failure

Question 6

What year was the Cavour Canal completed?

Answer 6

1857

Question 7

How many silk/ cotton workers were in Piedmont in 1844?

Answer 7

114 000 cotton workers and 60 000 silk workers

Question 8

What percentage did public debt increase by between 1847 and 1859?

Answer 8

83%

Question 9

What year was the Sicilia completed?

Answer 9

1855

Question 10

How many km of railway did Piedmont have by the end of the 1850s?

Answer 10

819km

Question 11

How many km of railway did Italy have by the end of the 1850s?

Answer 11

1798 km

Question 12

Who did Cavour make free trade treaties with?

Answer 12

Britain, France and Belgium

Question 13

Which French banker funded a lot of Piedmontese development?

Answer 13

Rothschild

Question 14

This banker also helped to fund which tunnel?

Answer 14

Mount Cenis

Question 15

What slowly led to Austrian decline?

Answer 15

The growing strength of Prussia

Reduced influence over the German confederation

Question 16

What years were the Crimean war?

Answer 16

1854 -56

Question 17

How many Piedmontese troops fought in the Crimean war?

Answer 17

18,000

Question 18

What happened between Mazzini and the French in 1849?

Answer 18

tried to appease them by returning French Prisoners, but was ignored

Question 19

Failed Mazzinian uprising in Milan

Answer 19

February 1853 - highlighted weakness in policies and tactics - 50 revolutionaries were shot by Austrians

Question 20

3 failed Mazzinian uprisings in the 1850s

Answer 20

Lunigiana 1853, Massa 1854, Palermo 1856

Question 21

Sapri 1857 Mazzinian Failure

Answer 21

Pisacane’s forces were attacked at Sapri by both Neopolitan and local forces - demonstrated Italy did not want a democratic revolution

Question 22

The Latin Committee

Answer 22

Set up in Paris in 1851 to campaign for a federal republic

Question 23

Military Committee

Answer 23

Genoa in 1852 by Medici - wanted to find an appropriate method to expel Austrian Military dominance

Question 24

The National Society

Answer 24

1857 - joined by many ex Mazzinians - demonstrated the end of ‘The Age of Mazzini’

Question 25

What did the Pope do after returning to Rome in 1850?

Answer 25

renounced all previous liberal reforms and the reforms of the Roman Republic

Question 26

How many political refugees fled to Piedmont after 1848 because of the liberal nature and free press/

Answer 26

30,000 - including the economist Ferrara

Question 27

How much did Piedmontese trade increase by in Piedmont (1850s)?

Answer 27

300%

Question 28

How much did Cavours Anti - Clericist economic reforms increase government wealth by?

Answer 28

equivalent £145,640

Question 29

What did Cavour warn Austria of in 1853?

Answer 29

Mazzinian uprising in Lombardy

Question 30

What did Cavour do in 1857?

Answer 30

persecuted Mazzinian radicals/ suppressed Mazzinian press in Genoa

Question 31

How many km of Railway did Piedmont have?

Answer 31

819km (1/3 of entire peninsula)

Question 32

What did Mamora do in 1853?

Answer 32

urged by Cavour to remove conservative elements