Phase I and II Quiz Flashcards
Argentina’s main crops
meat and grain
Argentina’s two technological advancements
steam vessel — faster and far more accurate sailing
chilling meat process — products fresh for European markets
two things Argentina lacked
capital and labor
name for the individuals going back and forth between Argentine Pampas and Italy
golondrinas or “swallows”
Argentine dependence on ____
foodstuffs
Argentine banking system tied to
gold standard
Who commanded Conquest of the Desert?
General Roca
What did Argentina lack?
peasantry
___ of Argentina’s working class consisted of immigrants who retained citizenship in Italy and Spain
3/5
Argentina’s Socialist Party
molded on European model — a parliamentary party, clearly committed to an electoral and evolutionary strategy
failed to attract immigrant workers
Argentina’s urban working class susceptible to ______ ideologies
anarchist
Federación Obrera Regional Argentina
FORA-sponsored strikes, worried gov’t, assumed it was the work of foreign agitators
Ley de Residencia
allowed gov’t to deport all foreigners whose behavior compromised national security or disturbed public order, by participating in strikes, for example
Ley de Defensa Social
making arrest and prosecution of labor organizers even easier
Argentina’s liberal politics were known as
”Generation of 1880”
acuerdo in Argentina
informal agreement between president and oligarchic power brokers
ignored central of legislature in this sense
Argentina’s spreading prosperity helped feed political discontent among three groups
newly prosperous landowners old aristocratic families members of the middle class doing well economically but excluded from political power
Radical Party, Argentina
created out of the political groups, newly prosperous landowners old aristocratic families members of the middle class doing well economically but excluded from political power
Union Civica Radical
two years later, Argentina
Radical (Argentina) leaders
Leandro Alem and Hipolito Yrigoyen
President Roque Saenz Pena
electoral reform in Argentina, universal male suffrage
Hipolito Yrigoyen
Argentina’s president, elected in 1916, pro-labor
Argentine Patriotic League
antilabor hysteria prompted by newly formed ultra-rightist civilian parliamentary movement, the Argentine Patriotic League, which effectively exploited the middle- and upper-class fear of change; members took to the streets to attack workers, hundred of demonstrators shot, league repressed
socialism in Argentina
socialism stressed political action
communism in Argentina
communism stressed labor union movement
Dom Pedro II
Brazil, tried to rule conservative military, overthrown in 1889
issues in Brazil
slavery and monarchy