WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Assertion:Giuseppe Mazzini worked with the conservatives for the monarchy.Reason:Italy had to continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms.
A
Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation ofassertion.
B
Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation ofassertion.
C
Assertion is true but reason is false.
D
Both assertion and reason are false.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ans : (d) Both assertion and reason are false. Mazzini’s relentless opposition to monarchy and his vision of democratic republics frightened the conservatives. Italy had to be forged into a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations/ It could not be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Mazzini believed that god had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind. So, Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Assertion : Giuseppe Mazzini worked with the conservatives for the monarchy. Reason : Italy had to continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms.

Detailed explanation-4: -He founded his patriotic movement for young men and called it Giovine Italia (Young Italy). It was designed as a national association for liberating the separate Italian states from foreign rule and fusing them into a free and independent unitary republic.

Detailed explanation-5: -Conservatives were afraid of the secret societies of Mazzini and his ideas because Mazzini supported liberal and democratic ideas. Liberal ideas means the ideas of freedom and equality. Conservative did not support such ideas because they favoured a society based on feudal hierarchies.

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