AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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a constitutional motive
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an educational motive
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an economic motive
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a democratic motive
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States had millions of dollars invested in businesses in Cuba and there were many U.S. citizens in residence there. The U.S. also traded goods with Cuba. In 1898, the United States assisted in war to protect its citizens and businesses in Cuba.
Detailed explanation-2: -The long-held U.S. interest in ridding the Western Hemisphere of European colonial powers and American public outrage over brutal Spanish tactics created much sympathy for the Cuban revolutionaries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The main goal of American businesses in Cuba in the 1800s was to develop the cash-crop market of tobacco, sugar, and fruit for export.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sugar estates and mining interests passed from Spanish and Cuban to U.S. hands, and it was U.S. capital, machinery and technicians that helped to save the sugar mills that remained competitive with European beet sugar.