What two nations replaced Spain and Portugal as dominant powers in Latin America?
What are Great Britain and the United States?
What dictator ruled Mexico from 1876–1911 and prioritized foreign investment and elite landowners?
Who is Porfirio Díaz?
What 19th-century war gave Chile dominance on the Pacific coast?
What is the war of the Pacific?
What law freed newborn children of slaves in 1871?
What is the Rio Branco Law?
What single-party rule dominated Argentina during the late 1800s?
What is the Unicato?
What system of large estates expanded massively under neocolonialism?
What is the Hacienda system
What phrase summarized Díaz’s policy of rewarding allies and punishing enemies?
What is Pan o Palo?
What treaty ended the war and gave Chile the province of Tarapacá?
What is the Treaty of Ancon?
What 1888 law finally abolished slavery in Brazil?
What is the Golden Law?
Who led the Radical Party after Leandro Alem’s death?
Who is Hipólito Yrigoyen?
What labor practice tied workers to landowners through inherited debt?
What is Debt Peonage?
What group of intellectuals supported Díaz’s rule and believed natives were racially inferior?
Who were the Científicos?
What nationalist president tried to “Chileanize” the nitrate industry?
Who is Jose Manuel Balmaceda?
What event in 1889 ended the Brazilian monarchy?
What is the Republican military coup?
What 1912 law established secret ballots and universal male suffrage?
What is the Saenz Pena Law?
What U.S. investment level in Latin America reached by 1914?
What is over $1.6 Billion Dollars?
What laws of 1883 and 1894 allowed elites to claim indigenous lands as “vacant”?
What are the tierras baldías laws?
What political period followed Balmaceda’s death and saw foreign economic domination?
What is the Parliamentary Republic?
What rebellion of peasants and religious followers was brutally suppressed in Bahia?
What is the Canudos Rebellion?
What major city’s population exploded as immigrants arrived between 1889 and 1909?
What is Buenos Aires?
Why did Latin American elites resist reforms that could lead to autonomous capitalism?
What is They feared losing power and wealth?
What was the main cause of growing unrest that led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910?
What is loss of land and labor exploitation under Díaz’s regime?
Who was known as the father of Chilean socialism?
Who is Luis Emilio Recabarren?
What economic policy was used to stabilize coffee prices by buying excess stock?
What is the Valorization Scheme?
What group split from the Radical Party to form a reformist Marxist movement? Who was it led by?
What is the Socialist Party, led by Juan B. Justo?