AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
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Salt
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Cinnamon
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Corn
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Sugar
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Detailed explanation-1: -Total investments in agriculture (sugar, tobacco, fruit, and cattle) amounted to $96 million, or 60% of the total. The US investments during the 1909–1913 period were estimated at $205 million. Sugar accounted for $50 million, or a 24.4% share, while agriculture in general received another $10 million (1928, pp.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eighty per cent or more of Cuba’s exports consisted of sugar and more than half was exported to the US.
Detailed explanation-3: -What did the U.S. do to protect business interests in Cuba? The U.S. insisted they add the Platt Amendment, which gave U.S. special privileges, that included the right to intervene to preserve an order.
Detailed explanation-4: -United States U.S. interest in purchasing Cuba had begun long before 1898. Following the Ten Years War, American sugar interests bought up large tracts of land in Cuba. Alterations in the U.S. sugar tariff favoring home-grown beet sugar helped foment the rekindling of revolutionary fervor in 1895.