Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is a positive feeling and positive doings in support of your country. It became really popular and started in the 180o's. It's one of the strongest things of all nations, no matter what type of society you run. Nationalism is when someone has devotion and loyalty for their country. Basically, patriotism. A lot of governments want their people to be loyal to them and feel like their government is the best. In order to say that you are a nationalist, you have to admit and have proof of how proud you are of your country. For me I'm proud of two countries. One country is where I was born, America. The other country is where my parents were born at. My nationality, which is Dominican.Americans represent America a lot without even noticing. Just by voting, that's one way you are supporting your country and you are supporting its government and society. I represent my pride of being American by speaking English and supporting the rights that we have. Even by standing to do the the Pledge of Allegiance.
Before Italy was known to be the Italy that it is today, it was like many other nations. It was separated and each empire had its ruler. The rulers weren't even Italian. Italians started to notice that having foreign rulers was breaking their nation apart even more. This led to the conclusion that the rulers should at least be Italian.
This led to two great leaders who believed in different things. There names were Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Mazzini was an idealist and he created the Young Italy group which only held men younger than 40. He believed that Italy would actually be better with the separated nation-states. While Garibaldi, a nationalist, was uniting all the nation-states in the South of Italy. He fought many battles to unite the South while Count Camillo di Cavour was fighting many battles to unite the North. In the end, the united state- nations were handed over to King Victor Emmanuel II.
Now that Italy was united nationalism was taking its course. Of course, there was many disagreements, especially between Mazzini and Cavour. Mazzini believed that Cavour was trying to unite Italy for the wealth of the King, instead of for the advantage of having all of the people of Italy together. With so many wars, Italy was losing its money. This made Italy a poor country entering the 20th Century.