Celebrated on April 21, the Inconfidência Mineira was led by the socioeconomic elite of against the collection of debts and imposed by the Portuguese Crown in the late 18th century.
Stuffed early by the Portuguese government, the conjuration had as one of the greatest symbols the dentist and military of low patent Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, who was one of the only participants of popular origin.
He was hanged, quartered and had his head aired in a public square on April 21, 1792.
The Inconfidência Mineira is part of in relation to, consummated only in September 1822. Two other larger uprisings are the Bahian conjuration (1798) and the Pernambuco Revolution (1817).
Influenced by the independence of the Minas Gerais conjuration defended the installation of a republic, different from the monarchical project that eventually thrived.
There was also the idea of emancipation of a part of the Brazilian territory, which would include mines and areas of and.
But his elitist leadership proposed few structural changes, unlike the Bahian conjuration, whose popular character manifested itself in the defense of the end of slavery. Already the only one to take power, for a brief period.
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What was the Inconfidência Mineira?
The Minas Gerais Inconfidência (historians prefer the term conjuration) was a uprising against the Portuguese Crown in the then captaincy of Minas Gerais in 1789, ending in 1792.
What motivated the uprising?
High taxes in a moment of decline in gold production. The newly appointed governor, Luís da Cunha Meneses, loyal to the royal family and known for his virulence, determined a minimum quota of gold payment to the Crown for believing that the drop in revenue would be smuggled.
The conspiracy was also driven by the promise of spill – cobunch of debt to cover the king’s injury due to the fall in tax collection.
A year before hatching the Inconfidência, the metal miners, an exorbitant amount.
Who participated?
People linked to the administration itself and the extraction of gold. Landowners, military, poets, religious, civil servants and traders, that is, an urban elite that depended on gold income and was indebted and dissatisfied with the crown.
What was the purpose of Minas Gerais Inconfidência?
The program was a sketch and there were some differences, as in the issue of slavery abolition. But in general, they intended to separate from Portugal and proclaim a Republic of Minas Gerais. For this, they predicted three years of defensive war against the metropolis.
What was the context of the movement?
The birth of an urban elite fed by gold profits, with good access to culture and influenced by European ideas – mining children formed much of the Brazilian students in Coimbra – contributed to influence the conspirators.
Enlightenment ideals and American independence served as inspiration for the separatist project. Already the decline of gold production and the increasing charges of the crown was the main trigger.
Who was Tiradentes?
Born in 1746, he was a drover, mascate, dentist (hence the nickname) and military, reaching the post of ensign (warrant officer) in the regulation of regular cavalry. In the troop contacted the.
What was the outcome of Inconfidência Mineira?
The movement was, in 1789, due to the denunciation of traders in exchange for the forgiveness of their debts.
The consequence was the arrest of those involved, including Tiradentes, who was the only one who had the death penalty executed in 1792, completing the metropolis’s acts against planned betrayal.
In addition to quartering Tiradentes’ body and displaying his head in a public square, his members were scattered throughout the Crown on the way to A Minas. The gesture aimed to dishonor the memory of movement and prevent other revolts from taking it as an example.
