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Italian Unification

By Sean, Zoe, and Matt Damon
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    Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna European powers met to repair the damages done by the Napoleonic wars.
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    The early Phase of the Italian Risorgimento

    Austrians regained domination over the Italian pininsula and Italy lived mostly in peace
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    Giuseppe Mazzini

    The young revolutionary set up a national revolution known as Young Italy. Mazzini wanted a united republic, his ideas spread quickly through the Italian pininsual.
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    Reforms in the Paple States, Lucca, Tuscany, and The Kingdom of Sardina

    These reforms were ment to weeken the revolutionary movements but actuall led to the revolutions of 1848

  • Victor Emmanuel

    Victor Emmanuel II overthrows his father and becomes the king of Italy

  • Prime Minister of Sardinia-Piedmont

    Count Camillo di Cavour became prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont

  • Cavour Crisis

    Cavour had caused a crisis that provoked the Austrians to send an ultimatum demanding Piedmontese disarment. Cavour rejected the ultimatum, and the Austrians declared war. Austria was defeated by the French and Piedmontese. Austrians surrender Lombardy to Napoleon III whom gives it to Emmanuel.
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    Elections

    All Northern sates voted to join Sardinia Napoleon III leaves them to fight the war alone due to their sudden large size. Also due to the new found large size Napoleon III demanded Savoy and Nice for France. Afterwards, the only french troops in Italy were kept in Rome at at the request of the pope.

  • Thousand Red Shirts

    Giuseppe Garibaldi sailed from Genoa with the Thousand Red Shirts and freed Naples and Sicily from the Boubon king and he gave the land to Victor Emmanuel.

  • Venetia

    Venetia is added to Italy after Prussia defeats Austria in the Seven Weeks' War.

  • Franco-Prussian War

    Napoleon III withdrawls his troops when the Franco-Prussian war erupts and the Italians move into Rome with no oppostion.

  • Rome becomes capital of Italy

    Rome becomes the capital of Italy after Rome votes for the Union of Rome and Italy. Rome became the capital of United Italy