Italian Politics

Italy- didn't exist before 1870

    - divided by the Congress of Vienna into separate

    states

    - Austria grabbed N. Italy too

Carbonari- revolutionaries who wanted to unite Italy

    - usually revolted and failed repeatedly

Count Camillo Cavour:

    - prime minister of Sardinia-Piedmont

    - allied with France, defeated Austria

        - got control of North Italy

        - revolutionaries took South Italy, gave it to

        Sardinia-Piedmont

1870- Italy took the Papal States- left the Vatican

to the Pope- united Italy in a constitutional monarchy

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