has 26 million inhabitants and 78% were illiterate. Almost everyone spoke their dialects. Agriculture employs 72% of the population, 18% industry and crafts 12% and the tertiary sector. Existed in Lombardy and Piedmont farms with cattle and had paid labor. In central Italy there was the sharecropping system, while in the South there were vast estates planted with wheat, where farmers were paid in kind by the owners and their living conditions were on the verge of subsistence.
The railway network was only 2000 km and was concentrated mainly in Piedmont and Lombardy. Poor roads and maldirotte The electoral law in the South Piedmont extended throughout the kingdom, gave the right to vote to those who had turned 25, could read and write and pay at least 40 pounds in taxes annually. In early 1861, members were elezoni 400,000. A comparison with England, the income in Italy was third in the English, now is about the same. The illiteracy rate was three times higher than the English. The law established the principle Casati compulsory primary education (2 years) and the law Rattazzi centralize power over the mayors and prefects.
In the South (former Kingdom of Two Sicilies), the riots against the new Kingdom of Italy until it abroad to become a battle of bands (the robbery) where robbers lived together, the former Bourbon soldiers, farmers and legitimacy aided by King Francis II in exile in the Papal States. Even the clergy supported the revolt as the Italian Government had incorporated many of the lands of the church and closed several convents. Until 1865 this struggle was very intense and the most critical moment, the Italian Government had to deploy up to 120,000 soldiers to confront it.
The new government had to standardize the different monetary systems and remove barriers of the old states. The lever for the army was compulsory and departments and the structure was copied from pemontese. The situation could see a strong industrial agricultural cultivation of silkworms and their textile industries who worked in Lombardy and partly in the Piedmont and the Veneto. Herds of dairy cattle with insutrie for dairy products in Lombardy, Piedmont and the former Duchies of Parma and Modena. The wine was produced throughout the peninsula and the oil in the South and especially in Puglia. Citrus in Sicily and Calabria. Important were the rice fields in Piedmont. The mechanical industries working mainly for the railways and were the Ansaldo of Genoa (1000 workers) and altgri establishments were located in Milan and Turin. Then there was the establishment of state Pietrarsa in Naples that he had 1000 workers. The steel industry was very weak that he had a dozen blast furnaces. In the south of the modern industrial centers were only two: the mechanical cotton Pierarsa and the Near Salerno and barriers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies were higher than those Piedmont and Lombardy-Veneto. When they fell down with the unification of the country, these industries had a hard time staying on the market.
