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The country's economy benefited from a change from extensive farming to industrial agriculture and

a huge European immigration, but there wasn't yet a strong move towards industrialization. At that
time, Argentina received some of the highest levels of foreign investment in Latin America. [citation needed] In
the midst of this economic expansion, the Law 1420 of Common Education of 1884 guaranteed
universal, free, non-religious education to all children.

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http://www.casahistoria.net/argentine_railways.htm