Liberal State-Stability

Had Liberal governments created a more united nation by 1900?

There were many problems facing the Italian Governments such as:

• The North was industrial. Engineering centres of Milan, Turin and Genoa. While the South was still agricultural, and mainly poor
• 1880’s widescale migration to growing towns
•  Medium sized farms for commercial farming only
•  Dialects varied from North to South
•  Majority of population was rural
•  Majority of population were working in small agricultural farms as labourers.
•  In the south there was little industry, used to be a “grain basket” but now                       exhausted.
•  Frequent social unrest in the south, many powerful clans and mafias in the south.

Government efforts to unite Italy:

Political:

• Liberal politicians believed that ordinary people shouldn’t be able to take part in political affairs. Lacked universal suffrage, not that many illeterate people could vote causing rifts.
• Believed in a parliament but of upper classes and the elite, not the…