(A) France
(B) ** Spain
(C) England
(D) Germany
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -U.S. business interests indicated that while Spain still held political authority over Cuba, it was the U.S. that held economic power over Cuba.
Concept note-2: -Cuba had been a colony from 1492 until 1898 when the United States took over the territory in the Spanish–American War. Many Cubans have ancestry dating back from Spain.
Concept note-3: -Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, (born c. 1465, Cuéllar, Spain-died 1524, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba), conquistador and first Spanish governor of Cuba.
Concept note-4: -In 1894 Spain canceled a trade pact between Cuba and the United States. The imposition of more taxes and trade restrictions prodded the economically distressed Cubans in 1895 to launch the Cuban War of Independence, a resumption of the earlier struggle.
Concept note-5: -The Cuban War of Independence (Spanish: Guerra de Independencia cubana), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years’ War (1868–1878) and the Little War (1879–1880).