HIST 2057 Lecture : Essay 2 Notes
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Latin america: this changes american attitudes towards imperialism, what stays the same with the engagement of these countries is the role of sugar (equivalent to oil today), sugar led to the development of american business interest in. Cuba: cuba in the 19th century is a colony of spain. The spanish control the island of cuba: the cubans rebel against the spanish in 1868. This rebellion goes on for about 10 years before spaniards agree to reforms (meet cubans demands): first demand was to an end to slavery on the island of cuba. It was a slave society: second demand was to have self-govt. They wanted to be in charge of their own govt: spain agrees to these things in 1878 but they basically wait and post the slave demand for another 10 years. In the 1880s, slavery is later ended in cuba: the whole question of cuban self-govt. is never implemented.
