Most of Argentina’s economic issues are solved…

Most of Argentina’s economic issues are solved when new land is opened for work after the expansion of national territory through Roca’s Conquest of the Desert, which has taken most of the territories under control of natives, and reduced their population.

Due to his military successes and the massive territorial gains linked with them, Roca had been put forward as a successor to President Avellaneda.

In October 1879, he had given up his military career to prepare for the election campaign on the National Autonomist Party ticket.

Carlos Tejedor, elected Governor of Buenos Aires in 1878, runs for the Presidency in opposition to Roca.

Winning only in Buenos Aires and Corrientes Provinces, Tejedor organizes an uprising, forcing the temporary relocation of Federal Government offices to Belgrano (then a suburb of the capital).

His defeats lead to his resignation as governor, and negotiations begun in his stead by Mitre with the victor, President Roca, lead to the definitive establishment of Buenos Aires as the nation's capital.

After triumphing over Tejedor, Roca takes over the presidency on October 12, 1880.