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Added to the Riograndense Republic in the 19th century, information about the country economy during part of the time period.
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A second period of rise on immigration was in the early 1900s and majority italian. In the first decade of the 20th century, the Italian Peninsula became a troublesome area. In 1903 the Latial Famine hit the region, five years later, in 1908, war took place in the Papal States. Adding this to economic and political issues facing the Italian nations, an influx of thousands of individuals left Europe.
==== Rise and fall of the charque monopoly ====
During much of the 19th century, the Riograndense Republic had control over the majority of charque exports in the southern cone. Charque is a type of dry bovine meat that takes a long time to rot, therefore, ideal to export to distant places. During colonial times, the dry meat was the main dish of the enslaved population across Brazil, and the captaincy of Rio Grande de São Pedro was responsible to fulfill the charque demand of the captaincies of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais.
When the Riograndense Republic became independent, it made a deal with the Colony Of Brazil to keep sending the important product. Soon Brazil became the most important economic partner of the newborn country.
In the late 19th century, the import of charque from Brazil started to decrease due to two factors. The abolishment of slavery in Portugal and its overseas territories and the colonization of the grasslands in western Brazil. Due to end of the slavery, the demand of Riograndense charque gone down, since local ranching was now capable to fulfill the need.
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 this made the government start to focus more investments in the local production than the foreign. The large ranches in the Riograndense Republic saw their income fall, and the government in Rio Grande started to discuss more investments in other economic sectors.
== Government & Politics ==
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