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Fewer and fewer Italians were content to live under foreign rulers becuase pepole started to rebell
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The kingdom had adopted a liberal constitution.
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Camillio di Cavour became prime minsiter
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In 1858, the French emperor Napoleon III agreed to help drive Austria out of the northern Italian provinces.
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In May 1860, a small army of Italian nationalists led by and Giuseppe Garibaldi captured Sicily.
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The nation was officially united in 1861.
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In 1866, the Austrian province of
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In 1870 Italian forces took over the last part of a territory known as the Papal States
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When France declared war on Prussia in 1870, occupying French troops abandoned Rome
