USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Yet Cuba remained one of Spain’s two colonies in the New World. (The other was Puerto Rico.) It was governed from Madrid much as it had been governed since it was first occupied and settled by the Spaniards in 1511.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cubans reluctantly included the amendment, which virtually made Cuba a U.S. protectorate, in their constitution. The Platt Amendment was also incorporated in a permanent treaty between the United States and Cuba.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cuban Independence Movement, nationalist uprising in Cuba against Spanish rule. It began with the unsuccessful Ten Years’ War (Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–78) and culminated in the U.S. intervention that ended the Spanish colonial presence in the Americas (see Spanish-American War).

Detailed explanation-4: -By 1521, Cuba became part of the Spanish Empire and was governed from the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City. During Spanish administration of Cuba, the island became a substantial producer of sugarcane and in order to meet global demands, Spain began to import slaves from Africa to work in Cuba.