domingo, 9 de diciembre de 2018

Sword Republic (1889-1894)

In the latest years of the XIX century, Brazil was a monarchy reigned by the king Peter II. He hadn´t got any children, so the inheritor of the reign would be a european Prince who would marry his elder daughter. Brazilians didn´t like this idea, as well as the decision of abolishing the slavery with the golden law of 1888. This caused anger in the big landowners, who would have to pay to the workers of their land. The army was also angry because they wanted more leadership in the state, and the medium class thought also that the idea of a Republic wasn´t bad.

With this pretext, the 15th of november of 1889, commander Da Fonseca proclaim the republic. The king and his family didn´t resist, and were sent to Europe. Da Fonseca was established as the head of the provisional government. The first five years of the republic would be dominated by the army. This is because this period is called "the Sword Republic".
Two years later, in 1891, it was created the republican Constitution. It was the second Constitution of Brazil and it established the party freedom, the presidentialism and grant more autonomy for the different states of Brazil, as Brazil was now established as Republic of United States of Brazil. It was also established the separation between State and Church and the right to vote for men older than 21. This year Da Fonseca was established as president, but he resign in the same year, establishing Floriano Peixoto as president.

In this article we found a brief timeline of Brazil´s history:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19359111

Here, we find an article explaining the development of the brazilian economy in the 20th century:

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