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?

TRAVEL 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

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

THANKS

The End