Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is the people's loyalty to sharing a common language or culture and not to a king or queen. Some examples that show that people are nationalistic is that we share that same the same language in out country, we celebrate the same holidays and we have the same currency. We celebrate our independence day, July 4, and share the same language.

In Italy, nationalism grew out of the French Revolution. Italy used to be part of the Austria-Hungary empire. Italy got influenced by other country's that declared independence. When Italy declared their independence, they had a war of independence. Italy was then formed by nationalism and made their own flag. Covour helped fight many battles for Italy to get rid of the Austrian forces and take their territory back.