History Activity: Economy in the First Republic

History activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, with questions developed about the economy in the First Republic.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Economy in the First Republic

1) The Agreement of Taubaté, of 1906, consolidated, with the government's guarantee, the agricultural economic policy of the first Republic. The government should buy the unexported agricultural crop and stock it. This agreement established the policy of valuing the following
product:
a) yerba mate
b) rubber
c) cotton
d) cocoa
e) coffee

2) Initially focused on the export of primary products, the Brazilian economy in the 20th century experienced profound diversification. Among the options below, check the INCORRECT alternative:

a) In the Old Republic, coffee valuation policies represented State interventions to maintain the price of the product, when it was falling on the international market.
b) The industrialization process, inaugurated with the 1929 crisis, spread throughout the country, leading to the constitution of homogeneous income and wealth patterns throughout the Brazilian territory.
c) From the 1950s onwards, the presence of foreign capital in the Brazilian industrial structure intensified, notably in the production of durable consumer goods.
d) The 1990s witnessed the growing opening of the Brazilian economy to imports, which has caused difficulties for several uncompetitive industrial sectors.

3) Regarding the Brazilian industrialization that took place during the Old Republic (1889–1930), tick the INCORRECT alternative:
a) Initially concentrated on the States of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
b) Predominantly used slave labor.
c) It was partially financed with coffee profits, which explains its initial location.
d) It was favored by the existence of a consumer market that was concentrated in cities.
e) It gained great momentum during World War I by participating in the import substitution process

4) The replacement of rubber monoculture took place mainly from 1912 onwards, due to the “fall” of Amazonian gum production in the international market, and was marked by:
a) Introduction of alternative sustainable logging practices.
b) Introduction of farming and soy production in the South-Western Amazon region.
c) Production of bags, ornamental pieces, necklaces, candied chestnuts, artifacts with forest products.
d) Rubber production, alternating with subsistence planting, hunting, fishing and the collection/extraction of Brazil nuts, açaí, copaiba and others.
e) Production of beans, rice, corn, soy and furniture manufacturing using regional technologies and timber management.

5) In the economic sphere, the Campos Sales government led the conversations that resulted in the Funding Loan which was:
a) an alliance between São Paulo and Minas, with the objective of guaranteeing national political supremacy to the states.
b) a policy of valuing coffee, with the aim of reducing foreign competition in the Brazilian market.
c) an agreement between the Brazilian government and external creditors, aimed at rescheduling the country's debt.
d) an agreement that guaranteed the purchase of coffee production that exceeded demand, by the federal government.
e) an agreement that provoked an unbridled speculation in the country, resulting from the large issuance of currencies.

Per Camila Farias.

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