Brazil underwent several social and economic transformations during the period known as the Old Republic (1889-1930), whose results, although important, were only felt in the long term. An example that we can cite is the demographic expansion, very accelerated in the country and intensified in the period thanks to the continuation of European immigration.
The influx of immigrants and their concentration in the south and southeast of Brazil caused these regions to experience faster population growth than the others.
The most significant transformation observed in the period was the development of industries, mainly in the state of São Paulo, undeniably linked to the conditions created by the concentration of production in the state.
What gave great impetus to Brazilian industrial development was the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
The centralization of European industrial activity in the production of war led to a reduction in the supply of exportable items. As a result, there was a gradual decrease in Brazilian imports of domestic production. Basically, non-durable consumer goods were produced, such as textiles and industrially processed foods, in addition to the exchange rate devaluation of the Brazilian currency when facing imports served to reduce foreign competition.
The success of imperial prosperity rested on a certain number of elements (festivities, development of capitalism, etc.) in order to avoid any resurrection of the revolutionary specter. Thus, Napoleon III sought the support of the clergy, the great financiers, the industrial magnates and the landown