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Discover the profound impact of Latin America on the global economy in the 19th century through steamships, underwater telegraphs, railroads, export booms, raw material production, and valuable imports.
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Margin question #9 pg. 848 By: Victoria Babicheva & Thomas Bui
The question In what ways and with what impact was Latin America linked to the global economy of the nineteenth century?
Steamships • Travel twice as fast and convenient by sea • Underwater telegraphs • Brought the latest news and fashions of Europe • Railroads • Argentina statistically more railroad per person than the US Travel
Export boom ~ Constant demand for food products, raw materials, and markets ~ In 1850 value of Latin American goods increased value by a factor of ten
Raw Materials • Mexico produced large amounts of silver, supplying over half of the world’s supply • Chile produced copper, required by the growing electrical industry • Rubber from the Amazon rain forest were needed for automobiles • sisal from Mexico were used to make binder twine for the proliferating mechanical harvesters of North America
Valuable imports • Came mostly from prospering countries
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