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==== Rise and fall of the charque monopoly ====
In the late 19th century, the import of charque from Brazil started to decrease because of two factors. Due to end of the slavery in Portugal in 1874, the demand of Riograndense charque gone down, since local ranching was now capable to fulfill the need. Also, around the late 1860s, western Brazil started to get inhabited. Prior to this, the region consisted of untouched grasslands and swamps. The new lands opened the opportunity to the rise in the number of Brazilian cattle, and thus the government started to focus more investments in the local production than the foreign.
==== Early industrialization of the Riograndense Republic ====
The last decades of the 19th century marked the beginning of the industrial revolution in the Riograndense Republic, and the continuation of the close economic relation of the country with the now neighboring Autonomous Oversea Territory of Brazil
Inside the territory which comprises the Riograndense Republic, more specifically in the Serra Geral and Serra Catarinense, there is one of the largest South American coal reserves, and knowing the existence of such an abundance of fuel for machinery, the newly formed Brazilian government soon started to discuss using the Riograndense coal to feed the future energy power plants and industries to be built around Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais.
In 1879, the Act For Mutual Development Of Industry And Energy (''Ato Para O Desenvolvimento Mútuo De Indústria e Energia'') between the Riograndense Republic and Brazil was signed. Due to this act, Luso-Brazilian companies for railroads, telegraph and mining started to invest in the neighboring nation. The companies owned by the Brazilian businessman Juscelino Gaspar Alves, also known as the Barão de Santos (''Baron Of Santos''), one of the first industry owners of luso-america, had a key role in the process.
=== Riograndense Republic in the 20th century ===
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