During the 1850's there were many civil wars breaking out among the different parts of Italy. Cities like Venice and Milan threw uprisings against the signing of a peace tready between Italy and Austria, these cities then attempted to create their own governments, and started taking over the Italy that was known as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Victor Emmanuel II was ruling over parliament in the North and eventually Count Camillo Benso di Cavour entered the cabinet and imposed laissez-faire economic policies, and started on international commercial treaties to cushion the economic blow of the unification of italy. These policies alarmed the conservatives which aided the rebels in the south. In 1852 Cavour became head of the cabinet and introduced ecclesiastical, judicial, and fiscal reforms. Cavour made an alliance with the west and sent an army to Crimea which did very well, and the North was invited to the Congress of Paris as one of the victors of the Crimean war. After this the war of 1857 occured in which Cavour secretly met with Napoelon III and it was agreed that French troops would prevent Austrian intervention in the battle between North and South, due to this favor Cavour had to give Savoy and Nice to France. After Cavour resigned in 1859, Giuseppe Garibaldi gathered 1000 voulenteers who all wore red and sailed to sicily and then took over the southern part of Italy to meet with the northern forces and unite into the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.