Italian Unification

  • Cavour goaded Austria into attacking Sardina

  • Austria attcked Sardina; Sardina won and only received Lombardy, the area around Milan

  • People of central Italy voted to join Sardina

  • Garibaldi's guerrila (red shirts) captured imagination of Sicilian peasantry

  • People of south Italy voted to join Sardina

  • Vanice joined Italy

  • Rome joined Italy