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- The economy of Argentina was divided between the commercial port of
Buenos Aires and pampas and the surrounding territories.
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- The United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata declared independence in
1816, but did not stay together very long.
- Liberal efforts to create a strong central government provoked a
federalist reaction which gained power in 1831 under Juan Manuel de
Rosas.
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- A weak central government and local autonomy followed that favored the
merchants of Buenos Aires and the surrounding ranchers called gauchos.
- Campaigns against the Indians opened new lands in the south.
- Rosas ruled in a populist, authoritarian manner and exiled the
opponents.
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- Liberals and regional caudillos joined to overthrow Rosas in 1852.
- After a confused decade of political turmoil opponents compromised to
create a unified republic called the Argentine Republic.
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- Between 1862 and 1890 Domingo F. Sarmiento and other able leaders
initiated wide political and economic reforms.
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- Political stability brought foreign investment; a great boost in exports
brought prosperity.
- The population tripled as many European immigrants came to take
advantage of the good times.
- Increased revenues allowed infrastructure development.
- National unity and pride grew after a successful war against Paraguay
and the defeat of the southern Indians.
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- Many problems were present behind Brazil's facade of 19th-century
political stability.
- Pedro I issued a liberal constitution in 1824 but still acted as an
autocrat.
- He was forced to abdicate in 1831; regents then ran the country in the
name of his young son Pedro II - he came to power in 1840 - in what
really was an experiment in republican government.
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- Internal disputes between liberals and conservatives were complicated by
arguments for and against the monarchy.
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- The development of coffee as an export crop brought economic resurgence.
- Coffee estates, called fazendas spread into the Brazilian interior
between 1840 and 1860 and caused an intensification of slavery.
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- The abolitionist movement gained strength, and slaves increased their
resistance to their status.
- Slavery was abolished in 1888.
- New political currents included the growth of urban and middle class
groups less tied to landholding and slavery, and the arrival of
thousands of European immigrants reduced dependence on slaves.
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- Support for the monarchy waned.
- A long war against Paraguay brought the military into politics, and
state quarrels with the church drew them into the opposition.
- Planters turned away from slavery to positivist ideas.
- The Republican Party, formed in 1871, won wide support and a coup
replaced the monarchy by a republic in 1889.
- However, Social and political problems caused by modernization remained
unresolved.
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- Tension remained in cultural life between European and American
influences, and between elite and folk ways.
- Social change for the masses and for women came slowly.
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- Independence opened up Latin America to direct influence from other
European nations.
- The elite followed Europe's examples in intellectual and artistic life.
- In the 1830s romanticism became important and turned interest to Indians
and local customs.
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- By the 1870s the focus changed; a new realism came to the arts and
literature along with the ideas of positivism (Auguste Comte’s
philosophy that stressed observation and scientific approaches to the
problems of society)
- Mass culture was not affected by elite trends; traditional forms
flourished but were ignored by most of the elite.
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- Women, despite participation in the revolutions, gained little ground
during the 19th century.
- They continued as wives and mothers under the authority of males; they
could not vote or hold office.
- Lower class women had more economic and personal freedom, but otherwise
shared in subordination.
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- Public education did become more open to women to prepare them for more
enlightened roles in the home.
- New occupational opportunities opened for women in teaching.
- Educated women, by the end of the century, actively demanded increased
rights.
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- Most of the new nations legally ended the society of castes where status
depended upon color and ethnicity.
- In reality, very little changed for Indians and former slaves.
- The expansion of the export economy in many ways intensified old
patterns.
- Personal liberties were sacrificed to economic growth.
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- Control of land, politics, and the economy was dominated by a small,
white, Creole elite.
- Latin America entered the 1880s as a predominantly agrarian group of
nations with rigid social structures, dependent on the world market.
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