Refer to the passage. Which of the following best explains the goals of the
Argentine Republic in encouraging immigration in the
late 1800s?
"If you come to consider the conditions a country
requires to be thought to receive the excess of
population flowing from European sources in such a
state that the latter may have hopes of good prospects
we find that to a relative depopulation and consequent
cheapness of land with want of men to till the soil, you
must add a mild and temperate climate which will
induce the immigrants to establish in the land of his
adoption and continue his old manner of living, without
being obliged to habituate himself to a new system;
there should be complete security for persons and
property guaranteed by the laws and tribunals; there
should also exist, at the very least, as much liberty of
action and of thought as immigrants enjoyed at his own
country, there should likewise exist proper means of
communication which would facilitate an easy and
cheap traffic between the parties, their ideas and their
industrial products: and lastly there should reian
O It wanted to offset the migration of indigenous
people to Europe.
o It needed soldiers due to a looming crisis with
neighboring Brazil.
O It was experiencing labor shortages due to growing
demand for exports.
O it was seeking to replace labor lost to the
emancipation of enslaved persons.