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    of American history since the founding of the country and its exploration of the New World. Italian immigration surged from the 1870’s to the 1930’s due to few economic opportunities and political suppression in Italy. Italy officially became a country in 1861 but before unification Italy consisted of small city states that were governed by small clans. Nationalization created a disproportion of wealth from the industrialized north to the rural overcrowded agricultural areas in the south. Over taxation

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    Zurich ends northern Italy tension. Tuscany, Modena, and Parma seek annexation by Sardinia. Italy was scattered during the 1850s but came together in the 1860s and 70s to really become a world power. Piedmont became the unlikely unifying power of Italy. Victor Emmanuel II was the driving force. Sardinia fought against Russia in the Crimean war and won. Sardinia was overall different because while being small they managed to get a lot done to further the unification of Italy. Explain the background

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    The identity of Italy was changing with different political powers and views clashing over the ideas of unification. From 1830-1870, people began to voice their opinions of the divided nation, raising much conflict. Italy, before its process of revolution began, was mostly ruled by foreign powers and absolute monarchs. The country’s citizens decided they wanted a change in their government and freedom from their rulers. In the beginning, the revolt was not organized and resulted in failure until

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    When World War I began, Italy was in the forty-third year of its unification. From 1860 until 1871, the Kingdom of Italy wrangled individual kingdoms across the land into one entity, much to the shock of its neighbors. The joining forced the rest of Europe to give grudging respect the land of the Roman Empire. The Kingdom of Italy was just missing the Italian speaking lands of the Alps, held by the Austrian-Hapsburg Empire, and they coveted the land greatly. During his reign, Bismarck saw the rising

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    urban middle classes and emerging working class rally for a strong and crucial conservative national state was one of the great political question and the answer to that question came with the national unification of Italy and Germany. Primarily there were three approaches to the unification of Italy. First, Mazzini centralized the democratic republic based on the universal right and the will of the people. Second, Gioberti’s a catholic priest headed the federation of existing states, and third,

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    Compare and Contrast the Unification of Germany, Italy, and the United States From the 1790s to 1814 French troops successively conquered and occupied the area that later constituted the German Empire. French domination helped to modernize and consolidate Germany and -- toward the end -- sparked the first upsurge of German nationalism. In different ways the French emperor Napoleon I helped German unification. It was important that he encouraged many of the middle-sized German states to

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    The Italian Unification was a political and social movement where the different states of the Italian peninsula were to combine into a single Italy. The Italian Unification occurred close in time to the German Unification, which occurred only one year later. The Unification of Italy was a widely controversial topic discussed by many italian citizens and leaders during the 19th century. Many people destined for Italy to be unified as one country, a country that they considered to be stronger overall

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    talk about the unification of Germany and Italy and how these two places went about unification and how that affected Europe. Also, I’m going to compare and contrast the effects that these two places unifying had on Europe. Before the French revolution both Italy and Germany were divided into many states, Germany was divided way more than Italy with more than three hundred states which had to have been harder to unite. Many people don’t know about the unification of Germany and Italy occurred or know

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    talk about the unification of Germany and Italy and how these two places went about unification and how that affected Europe. Also, I’m going to compare and contrast the effects that these two places unifying had on Europe. Before the French revolution both Italy and Germany were divided into many states, Germany was divided way more than Italy with more than three hundred states which had to have been harder to unite. Many people don’t know about the unification of Germany and Italy occurred or know

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    ITALIAN UNIFICATION (1848-1870) Nationalism is sovereignty of people and emotional attachment to the nation. Nationalism stands for loyalty to a nation through collective consciousness of shared history, language, race, values, culture and traditions. Nationalism has five stages and the second stage is unification i.e. people united in a nation. Most significant unifications are Italian and German unification, in this essay I will focus on the Italian unification. The research question that I will

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