| A | B |
|---|
| Napoleon III | Leader of France - Napoleon's Nephew |
| Camillo Di Cavour | Prime Minister of Piedmont who hated Austrian domination and, thus, joined the Risorgimento and worked to secure French support against Austria |
| Victor Emmanuel II | Monarch who ruled Piedmont an ultimately ruled when the second Revolution was successful |
| Guiseppe Garabaldi | Joined forces with Mazzini in 1833 but was defeated and fled South America until 1848. Returned and won a few battles in 1848-1849 but ultimately had to flee to the mountains until 1859, when he reemerged and let the Red Shirts |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | The first to work for Italian Unification - he was the intellectual (the brain) and wanted Italy to become a Republic and not a Monarchy. He was imprisoned for his role in Risorgimento but never gave up working for it. |
| Risorgimento (in general) | Movement for and process of Italian Unification |
| Revolutions of 1848-1849 | Were ultimately unsuccessful (crushed by France and Austria) but stirred Italian Nationalism |
| Carboneria | Secret, political revolutionary group, who advocated for Italian Unification and opposed Napoleon III. Mazzini and Garabaldi were both members of this group. |
| Exile | State of being banished or not allowed to be in one's home country. Most leaders of Italian Unification were exiles and lived and wrote from other countries. |
| Young Italy | After Mazzini was released from prison in France, he created this organization to unite Italy in the causes of democracy and social reform |
| Risorgimento | Revolutionary Organization ("The Party of Action") in part founded by Mazzini that worked for Italian Unification |
| Kingdom of the Two Cicilies | States in the South, ruled by the French |
| Papal States | States in the middle of the peninsula, that were governed by the Pope |
| States of Northern Italy | States in the Northeast, that were controlled by Austria |
| Kingdom of Sardinia | Otherwise known as Piedmont, ruled by a monarch named Victor Emmanuel |
