Cavour came back into power in 1860 and gained Napoleon's support by ceding Savoy and Nice. The people of central Italy supported an enlarged kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel. He unified northern Italy. But Giuseppe Garibaldi, a super-patriot, led a corps of volunteers against Austria in 1859 and in 1860 stood out as an independent Italian politician. Cavour used Garibaldi to "liberate" the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Garibaldi and his Red Shirts caused a rebellion with the peasantry and their landlords. Garibaldi won and he marched towards Naples. Cavour realized that if Garibaldi attacked Rome it would bring war with France, but Garibaldi didn't attack and the people of the southern Italy voted to joining the kingdom of Sardinia under Victor Emmanuel II. As a result Italy Cavour turned popular nationalism in a conservative direction. It expanded to Venice and Rome under Victor Emmanuel II. Italy was neither radical nor fully democratic. The unification of Germany started with the Austro-Prussian War in which the German states were in a political stalemate as Austria and Russia blocked Prussian king Frederick William IV's attempt to unify Germany. Since Austria wasn't included in the Zollverein, it caused a little bit of a feud. Prussia's leading role in the Zollverein gave itself an advantage over its struggle with Austria. Prussia emerged in 1848 with a weak parliament but over time they wanted the parliament to hold all the power in the nation. It came into the eyes of William I and he was convinced of great political change. So he raised taxes and increased defensive budgets, but the parliament rejected it and appointed Otto von Bismarck as Prussian prime minister. When he took office in 1862, he called that the government would rule without parliamentary consent, but he had the Prussian bureaucracy go right on collecting taxes, even though the parliament refused the bill.
