Where did the el salvadoran government get all their income, prior to the 20th century? lottery revenue foreign aid gold mines coffee taxes

The correct answer is Coffee

Explanation:

El Salvador became an independent republic in 1832. The wealthy landowners had supermajority in the national legislature and economy, and by the late 1800s, "Las Catorce Familias" or "The fourteen families" (a term used to refer to the oligarchy which controlled most of the land and wealth in El Salvador) controlled half the land in the country, and focused production almost exclusively on coffee, due to a high international demand for the product. Peasants supplied the labor force to grow and harvest these crops, who no longer had enough land to support their own lands, thus needing the very low wages paid by large farms. Coffee production fueled Salvadoran economy, increasing sharply in the XIX century. Coffee production has traditionally represented more than 50% of the country's export revenues.