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===Cabanagem===
{{see also|Cabanagem}}
[[File:Cabanagem Belém 1835.jpg|250px|thumb|right|19th century engraving about the Cabanagem]]
Cabanagem, a popular and social revolt during the [[Empire of Brazil]], in the [[Amazon region]], was influenced by the French Revolution. It was mainly due to extreme poverty, hunger and disease that devastated the Amazon at the beginning of the period, in the former province of Grão-Pará, which included the current [[Amazônia Legal|Amazonian states]] of Pará, [[Amazonas (Brazilian state)|Amazonas]], [[Amapá]], [[Roraima]] and [[Rondônia]]. The revolt spread from 1835 until January 1840, due to the process of independence of Brazil (1822), which did not occur immediately in the province due to political irrelevance to which the region was relegated by Prince Regent [[Pedro I of Brazil|Pedro I]]. After independence, the strong Portuguese influence remained stable, giving political irrelevance in this province to the Brazilian central government.

Indians, blacks, and mestizos (mostly poor class members), all named cabanos (cabins), teamed against the Regent Government and rebelled, to increase the importance of the region in Brazil's central government addressing the issue of poverty as one of the reasons. All lived in mud huts (hence the name of the revolt).<ref name="NYT4">{{cite web | url=https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection=Americas&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=article#/Bel%C3%A9m%2C+Brazil/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/oldest/ | title=THE BRAZILS.; The Don Pedro II. Railway Portion Built by American Contractors An Imperial Visit Miscellaneous News. | work=New York Times | date=July 16, 1860 | access-date=March 9, 2017 | author=From Our Own Correspondent - Print Headline}}</ref> At the bottom of the rebellion, there was a mobilization of the Brazilian Empire against the reactionary forces of the province of Grão-Pará in expelling the insurgents who wanted to keep the region as a Portuguese colony or territory independent. Many of the local leaders, who resented the lack of political participation in decisions of the centralizer of the Brazil government, contributed to the climate of dissatisfaction against the provincial government.