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The resulting conflict with native peoples necessitated a government response. During his governorship he granted lands in the south to war veterans and to ranchers seeking alternative pasture lands during the drought.
Rosas was generous to those Indians who surrendered, rewarding them with animals and goods. Although he personally disliked killing Indians, he relentlessly hunted those who refused to yield. His conquest of the south opened many possibilities for further territorial expansion, which led him to state: "The fine territories , which extend from the Andes to the coast and down to the Magellan Straits are now wide open for our children. In quick succession, Balcarce was followed by two others who presided over weak and ineffective governments.
The Rosismo Rosism had become a powerful faction within the Federalist Party, and pressured other factions to accept a return of Rosas, endowed with dictatorial powers, as the only way to restore stability. A plebiscite was held to determine whether the citizens of Buenos Aires supported Rosas's reelection and resumption of dictatorial powers. During his governorship from to , Rosas had reduced the election process to a farce. He had installed loyal associates as justices of the peace, powerful officeholders with administrative and judicial functions who were also charged with tax collection, leading militia and presiding over elections.
Control over finances had been stripped from the legislature, and its approval of legislation turned into a rubber stamp to preserve a semblance of democracy. Rosas believed that the manipulation of elections were necessary for political stability, because most of the country's population was illiterate. Lynch said that there "was a great deal of group cohesion and solidarity among the landed class.

Rosas was the center of a vast kinship group based on land. He was surrounded by a closely knit economic and political network linking deputies, law officers, officials, and military who were also landowners and related among themselves or with Rosas.
Rosas's authority and influence spread far beyond the House of Representatives. He exercised tight control over the bureaucracy as well as his cabinet, stating: "Do not imagine that my Ministers are anything but my Secretaries. I put them in their offices to listen and report, and nothing more. As early as , Rosas had confided to an Uruguayan diplomatic envoy: "I tell you I am not a Federalist, and I have never belonged to that party.
Rosas established a totalitarian regime , in which the government sought to dictate every aspect of public and private life.
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It was mandated that the slogan "Death to the Savage Unitarians" be inscribed at the head of all official documents. A red waistcoat, red badge and red hat band were required for men, while women wore ribbons in that colour and children donned school uniforms based upon Rosismo paradigms. Building exteriors and interiors were also decorated in red. Most Catholic clergy in Buenos Aires willingly backed Rosas' regime.
When Rosas slashed expenditures, he cut resources from education, social services, general welfare and public works. Rosas was a slave-owner, and helped revive the slave trade. In addition to purges, banishments and censorship, Rosas took measures against the opposition and anyone else he deemed a threat that historians have considered state terrorism.
Those victimised included members of his government and party who were suspected of being insufficiently loyal. If actual opponents were not at hand, the regime found other targets that were punished to make an example. A climate of fear was used to create unquestioning conformity to Rosas' dictates. State terrorism was carried out by the Mazorca , an armed parapolice unit of the Sociedad Popular Restauradora political organization.
The Sociedad Popular Restauradora and the Mazorca were creations of Rosas, who retained tight control over both. Others who fell into their power were arrested, tortured and killed. Although a judicial system still existed in Buenos Aires, Rosas removed any independence the courts might have exercised, either by controlling appointments to the judiciary, or by circumventing their authority entirely.
He would sit in judgement over cases, issuing sentences which included fines, service in the army, imprisonment, or execution. It was used against specific targets, rather than randomly. Terrorism was orchestrated rather than a product of popular zeal, was targeted for effect rather than indiscriminate. Anarchic demonstrations, vigilantism and disorderliness were antithetical to a regime touting a law and order agenda.
Victims were selected for their usefulness as tools of intimidation. Throughout the late s and early s, Rosas faced a series of major threats to his power. The Rosista army played a minor role in the conflict, which resulted in the overthrow of Santa Cruz and the dissolution of the Peru—Bolivian Confederation.
Unable to confront the French, Rosas increased internal repression to forestall potential uprisings against his regime. The blockade caused severe damage to the economy across all the provinces, as they exported their goods through the port of Buenos Aires. Despite the Federal Pact , all provinces had long been discontent with the de facto primacy that Buenos Aires province held over them. Rosas counterattacked and defeated the rebels, killing their leader, the governor of Corrientes. Rosas imprisoned some of the plotters and executed others. Manuel Vicente Maza , president of both the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court , was murdered by Rosas's Mazorca agents within the halls of the parliament on the pretext that his son was involved in the conspiracy.
In September , Juan Lavalle returned after ten years in exile.
He allied with the governor of Corrientes, which revolted once again, and invaded Buenos Aires province at the head of Unitarian troops armed and supplied by the French. By December , Lavalle had been killed and the rebellious provinces subdued, except for Corrientes, which was only defeated in The defeated men had their throats cut and their heads put on display.
Around , Rosas managed to establish absolute dominance over the region. He exercised complete control over all aspects of society with the solid backing of the army. Rosas was raised from colonel to brigadier general the highest army rank on 18 December When Rosas was elected governor for the first time in , he held no power outside the province of Buenos Aires.

There was no national government or national parliament. He gradually put in place provincial governors who were either allied or too weak to have real independence, which allowed him to exercise dominance over all the provinces. The next year, with acquiescence of the provinces, he named himself "Supreme Head of the Confederacy" and became the indisputable ruler of Argentina. As Rosas aged and his health declined, the question of who would succeed him became a growing concern among his supporters.
Although devastated by his loss, Rosas exploited her death to raise support for his regime. Later during his exile, Rosas declared that Princess Alice of the United Kingdom would be the ideal ruler for his country. He never recognized the independence of Paraguay and regarded it a rebel Argentine province that would inevitably be reconquered. To reinforce his claims over Uruguay and Paraguay, and maintain his dominance over the Argentine provinces, Rosas blockaded the port of Montevideo and closed the interior rivers to foreign trade.
The loss of trade was unacceptable to Britain and France. This undeclared war caused more economic harm to France and Britain than to Argentina. The British faced increasing pressure at home once they realised that the access gained to the other ports within the Platine region did not compensate for the loss of trade with Buenos Aires. Although his prestige was on the rise, Rosas made no serious attempts to further liberalise his regime.
Every year he presented his resignation and the pliant House of Representatives predictably declined, claiming that maintaining him in office was vital for the nation's welfare. Nonetheless, it served as a clear warning that Rosas had no intention of loosening his grip. Rosas failed to realize that discontent was steadily growing throughout the country. Throughout the s he became increasingly secluded in his country house in Palermo , some miles away from Buenos Aires.
There he ruled and lived under heavy protection provided by guards and patrols. He has a horse ready saddled at the door of his office day and night".
Once one of Rosas' most trusted lieutenants, Urquiza now claimed to fight for a constitutional government, although his ambition to become head of state was barely disguised. With arms and financial aid given by Brazil, Urquiza then marched through Argentine territory heading to Buenos Aires. Uncharacteristically, Rosas remained passive throughout the conflict. The Argentine ruler lost heart once he realized that he had fallen into a trap.
Even if he defeated Urquiza, his forces would probably be weakened enough to prevent him from challenging the Brazilian army that was ready to invade Argentina. Here we are, and from here there is no retreat. Once there, he disguised himself and boarded a ship that took him to Britain to live in exile. It is the monkeys, the Brazilians. Rosas arrived in Plymouth , Great Britain, on 26 April The British gave him asylum, paid for his travel and welcomed him with a gun salute. These honours were granted because, according to the British Foreign Secretary James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury , "General Rosas was no common refugee, but one who had shown great distinction and kindness to the British merchants who had traded with his country".
His daughter Manuela married the son of an old associate of Rosas, an act which the former dictator never forgave. A domineering father, Rosas wanted his daughter to remain devoted to him alone. While this metaphor was once useful for United States feminists in order to gain the attention required to make large-scale political changes, as was the case for the women's suffrage movement of the s, its relevance may have not only run its course but its usage has been argued as completely inappropriate.
The wave metaphor has been described as misleading and even dangerous because it not only renders the periods of time in-between waves as silent and irrelevant, but it also contributes to the faulty conceptualization of a particular brand hegemonic feminism as the ultimate understanding of what feminism is.
The wave metaphor has further been criticized for privileging not only particular races and classes of women in the United States, but for privileging the feminism of the United States in general over other locations in the world. The writer Olympe de Gouges amended the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen into the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen , where she argued that women accountable to the law must also bear equal responsibility under the law. She also addressed marriage as a social contract between equals and attacked women's reliance on beauty and charm as a form of slavery.
The 19th century, conservative, post-Revolution France was inhospitable for feminist ideas, as expressed in the counter-revolutionary writings on the role of women by Joseph de Maistre and Viscount Louis de Bonald. Niboyet was a Protestant who had adopted Saint-Simonianism , and La Voix attracted other women from that movement, including the seamstress Jeanne Deroin and the primary schoolteacher Pauline Roland. Unsuccessful attempts were also made to recruit George Sand. Feminism was treated as a threat due to its ties with socialism, which was scrutinized since the Revolution.
With the emergence of a new, more conservative government in , feminism would have to wait until the Third French Republic. In , they founded L'entente , which published articles on women's history, and became the focus for the intellectual avant-garde.
It advocated for women's entry into higher education and the male-dominated professions.