Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism means that a country is controlled by its own government and not by a king. People vote for their own rights and their own ruler. The way that U.S. citizens are nationalistic is that the currency they use are U.S. dollars, they recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem, the language they speak is English, they celebrate holidays like Independence Day (July 4th) and they also vote for their rights of how the country should be controlled. Nationalism started existing during the 1800's and started changing the way people live. Nationalsim started destroying empires and they started to become nation states. In 1858, the Kindgdom of Sardinia was the largest state known in the area. Camillo di Cavour helped unite Italy by driving out the Austrians with the support of Napolean III. Through 1870, Italy is known as how it is today as a nation state. The province of Venitia was taken over and drove out the Austrians.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

What Simon Bolivar accomplised during his lifetime was during the year 1813, he led the invasion of Venezuela. Then months later he became the President of Venezuela and became known as El Libertador. Bolivar also made a victory of the Battle of Boyaca in 1819 and two years later, he became the President of Great Colombia. He won a few other battles during the years 1821 and 1822. During those years he took the task of liberating Peru with the help of Jose de San Martin, and was made the dictator of the country. Mostly of all of those accomplishments, the Republic of Bolivia was made in 1825 with the help of Antonio Jose de Sucre. Then after, he became presidents of other countries including Peru and Colombia. Bolivar resigned from presidency in 1830 and then was going to Europe. But before he even set sail he got tuberculosis, and he died in Colombia during the same year.