A Escada das Leis e a Queda da Monarquia

Section role: supports Section 2 ('A Escada das Leis e a Queda da Monarquia'), providing visual support while the teacher details the gradualist abolition laws and the fall of the empire. Slides: (1) Title — 'A Escada das Leis e a Queda da Monarquia'; (2) Abolição Gradual — bullets: definition of gradualism, the strategy to appease British pressure and internal elites without shocking the economy; (3) Lei do Ventre Livre (1871) — bullets: target population, the reality of keeping the child under master control until age 8 or compensation, limitations of the measure; (4) Lei dos Sexagenários (1885) — bullets: target population, life expectancy context in the 19th century, irony of the 'lei da gargalhada' as few reached 60; (5) Lei Áurea (1888) — bullets: signature by Princesa Isabel, absence of state assistance, economic integration or land reform for the freed; (6) A Resistência Ocultada — bullets: the active role of enslaved peoples, quilombolas, and abolitionist press in breaking the system from below; (7) Os Pilares de Sustentação da Monarquia — bullets: visual diagram of Igreja, Exército, and Elites Escravocratas breaking apart; (8) A Crise do Império — bullets: alienation of the 'Republicanos de Última Hora' (agrarian elite) due to lack of indemnification for freed labor; Closing slide: 'A abolição foi apenas um ato de bondade da Princesa Isabel ou resultado de uma pressão social e política intensa?' — sets up the discussion and transition to Section 3 analysis.

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