Booklet 2 Italy

Question 1

What happened to Sicily following the 1848 failure?

Answer 1

Neopolitan rule reestablished, 2 Sicilies forced back together

Question 2

When did VE become king?

Answer 2

March 1849

Question 3

How much of the population were literate?

Answer 3

2.25%

Question 4

How many political refugees from Turin/Genoa in the 1850s?

Answer 4

30,000

Question 5

When did the Pope return to Rome? Supported by who?

Answer 5

1850
20,000 French Troops

Question 6

Which family were VE’s wife and mother from?

Answer 6

Austrian Imperial Family

Question 7

When was Azeglio appointed as PM?

Answer 7

End of 1849

Question 8

How many military men did VE’s first cabinet include?

Answer 8

25 military men

Question 9

What were 2 powers of VE?

Answer 9

Could command the Army at will
Could appoint and dismiss ministers

Question 10

What was one of VE’s first actions as King?

Answer 10

To shell rebels in Genoa

Question 11

When were the Siccardi Laws passed?

Answer 11

March 1850

Question 12

What was the concordat?

Answer 12

An agreement between the Church and the state regarding the Siccardi laws

Question 13

Which clerical member opposed the Siccardi laws?

Answer 13

Archbishop Fransoni (was imprisoned)

Question 14

Name a right wing politician upset by the Siccardi laws?

Answer 14

Balbo

Question 15

What was the Connubio and when was it formed?

Answer 15

A coalition made between Cavour and Rattazi

1851-52

Question 16

What did the Connubio do?

Answer 16

Strengthened parliament against the crown

Question 17

What was Rattazi appointed to as a result of the Connubio?

Answer 17

Chamber of deputies

Question 18

When did Cavour ask to be PM?

Answer 18

November 1852

Question 19

Who was weakened by the Connubio?

Answer 19

d’Azeglio (his gov fell in 1852 following attempts to introduce civil marriage)

Question 20

How did Cavour reduce temporal power? How much did this add to state income?

Answer 20

Closed 152 monasteries and 1700 beneficiaries were suppressed.
£150,000

Question 21

When was Rattazi sacked from the chamber of deputies?

Answer 21

1857

Question 22

When was the Milan revolt that Cavour suppressed?

Answer 22

Feb 1855

Question 23

What 3 positions did Cavour appoint himself as and when?

Answer 23

Prime minister
Foreign minister
Finance minister

Jan 1855

Question 24

When did Cavour enact financial and military reform?

Answer 24

1852 and 1853 (used La Mamora for the Army)

Question 25

When was the Telegraph developed that linked Turin and Paris?

Answer 25

1853

Question 26

How much did Piedmont trade value increase by?

Answer 26

300%

Question 27

How much did Piedmont debt rise by in how many years? (Because of tech developments)

Answer 27

605 million lire
12 years

Question 28

Who did Piedmont have trade agreements with?

Answer 28

Britain/ France/ Belgium

Question 29

When was the railway line built that linked Milan, Turin, Genoa and the French Border? Who financed this?

Answer 29

1854
Rothschild

Question 30

When was the Mount Cennis Tunnel built? Who financed this?

Answer 30

1857
Rothschild and Laffitte

Question 31

How much railway in Piedmont by end of 1850s?

Answer 31

819km (1/3 of all railway in Italy)

Question 32

What trade agreement undermined Austrian control in Germany?

Answer 32

The Zollverein

Question 33

When did Italy join the Crimean war?

Answer 33

Jan 1855

Question 34

How many troops did Italy send to the Crimean war?

Answer 34

18,000

Question 35

When was the Italian Question discussed at the Congress of Paris?

Answer 35

April 8th 1856

Question 36

Who supported Italy because of the Crimean war?

Answer 36

Britain and France

Question 37

What did Cavour join d’Azeglio’s government as? When?

Answer 37

Minister for Agriculture and travel
October 1850