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Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe unification movements national movements in europe historiography

A voluntary force called 'Red Shirts' was organized by.

  1. Mazzini

  2. Garibaldi

  3. Cavour

  4. Voltaire
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In 1860, Garibaldi led the famous Expedition of the Thousand to South Italy. Fresh volunteers kept joining through the course of the campaign, till their numbers grew to about 30,000. They were popularly known as Red Shirts. 

Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe unification movements national movements in europe historiography

Count Cavour, in $1861$, declared __________ as the King of Italy.

  1. Kaiser William

  2. Bismarck

  3. Garibaldi

  4. Victor Emmanuel
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Count Cavour was an Italian statesman and leading figure in the unification of Italy. He founded the Liberal Party and was the Prime Minister of Italy. In 1861, he declared Victor Emmanuel II as the King of Italy.

Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe unification movements national movements in europe historiography

For the national unity of which country did Garibaldi fight?  

  1. Austria

  2. Italy

  3. Germany

  4. Russia
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Garibaldi was a central figure in the movement for unification of Italy. He enthusiastically supported the Mazzini's Young Italy Movement and became a life-long supporter of Italian unification under a democratic Republican government.

Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe unification movements national movements in europe historiography

Arrange the developments related to European history in a chronological sequence
I. Napolean invaded Italy 

II. Unification of Italy
III. Unification of Germany   
IV. Vienna's Settlement

  1. I, III, II and IV

  2. I, II, IV and III

  3. I, IV, II and III

  4. I, II, III and IV
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation
  • Napoleon invaded Italy in the year 1796. 
  • The Vienna Settlement took place in late September 1814. 
  • Unification of Italy started in 1815 and was completed by 1870. After that  Germany became unified on 18 January 1871.
Multiple choice history the rise of nationalism in europe unification movements national movements in europe historiography

Who of the following is described as the "Sword of Italian Unification''?

  1. Garibaldi

  2. Cavour

  3. Mazzini

  4. King Charles Albert
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation
In 1867, Garibaldi led an army of volunteers to Rome to fight the last obstacle to the unification of Italy, the Papal States where a French garrison was stationed. The Red Shirts proved to be no match for the combined French and Papal troops. It was only in 1870 when, during the war with Prussia, France withdrew its troops from Rome that the Papal States were finally joined to Italy.