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At what time was liberalism most popular in Latin America?

These are questions out the book Born in Blood and Fire, by Chasteen. Chapter 6. I need help answering them. These questions are based in the later years of 1800's. The answers need to be short

1. Within the liberal model, what did landowners desire?

2. Which were the most important means of transportation that could be found in Latin America during the nineteenth century?

3. Which Latin American country first connected with Europe in 1874 via the transatlantic telegraph?

4. By the second half of the nineteenth century, which statement best defined the idea of Progress (with a capital P)?

5. Why did the Mexican people contribute to the Catholic Church?

6. For the nationalists, what is the greatest obstacle to Progress?

7. In which Latin American country did the Church have the strongest presence by the middle of the nineteenth century?

8. By the middle of the nineteenth century, did the Church in Mexico own land? How much?

9. What was a "fuero" and who enjoyed it in Mexico?

10. In Mexico, "Religion and Fueros!" became the battle cry of conservatives. Why was this the case?

11. Who invited the French monarchs to rule Mexico?

12. Benito Juárez became the indigenous governor of which country?

13. Who invented the term "Latin America"?

14. Which country did the following statement become the liberal slogan: Gobernar es poblar, "To govern is to populate"?

15. Why did Alberdi urge the government to promote European immigration to Argentina? Because of the governing parties' liberal political philosophy, by the end of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires would end up resembling which of these cities?

16. What was the darker side of liberalism?

17. Which were the consequences of the Brazilian "free birth" law?