Why did members of the urban middle class in brazil protest the coffee elite in the 1920s? a) brazilian citizens drank more coffee than any other country. b) brazil ended up with excess coffee that the government bought to the economy. c) growing coffee was a way to keep citizens busy and prevent protests. d) the government was controlled by the elite landowners who grew coffee.

D) The government was controlled by the elite landowners who grew coffee.

Explanation:

The financial power of the rural aristocracies of Minas Gerais and São Paulo, growing during the previous century, had allowed its politicians to acquire national projection. In this way, the politics of the coffee with milk ("Política do Café com Leite" in Portuguese. A name given by historians to the political behavior of the country back then) consolidated the power of the more affluent families, forming the oligarchies. Those from the state of São Paulo and the state of Minas Gerais occupied the positions of President of the Republic, Vice President and Ministries of Justice, of the Finance and the Agriculture, among others.

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explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.

a. always outside of government control.