Answer:
The revolutions of 1848 ignited nationalist sentiment throughout the Italian peninsula. The Franco-Austrian War of 1859 was the agent that began the physical process of Italian unification. The Austrians were defeated by the French and Piedmont at Magenta and Solferino, and thus relinquished Lombardy.
Explanation:
The answers that apply to the question would be: John Brown's raid AND the election of 1860. The other events had already happened by the time the civil wat started.
