Unification of Italy

By luke.schaper

  • Italian patriots wanted to unify Italy once again

  • Period: to

    Nationalitsts orangized secret societies

    This was to stop austrian forces in northern Italy, and also was a result of the Congress of Vienna ignoring them (nationalists)
  • Guiseppe Mazzini

    Guiseppe Mazzini

    Creator of young Italy, a secret society set up to constitute Italy

  • The Italian nationalist movement gave Italian power to Sardinia

  • Mazzini set up a revolutionary republlic within Rome

    Mazzini set up a revolutionary republlic within Rome

    The French found out and destroyed soon after creation

  • Count Camilo Cavour

    He became Prime Minister of Italy, believed in REALPOLITIK and improved the agriculture oof Italy, supported free trade, and built railroads.

  • Cavour announced war with Austria, and ended triumphant

  • Giuseppe Garibaldi

    Giuseppe Garibaldi

    Led a force of 1,000 volunteers or "red shirts" and seizwed control of Sicily
  • Victor Emmanuel II

    Victor Emmanuel II

    Crowned King of Italy, therefore officially unifying Italy

  • France withdrawled all forces from Rome

    Granting full control of Rome and most remant land back to Italy