USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The island was promptly claimed for the Spanish Crown, where it was named La Isla Española ("the Spanish Island"), later Latinized to Hispaniola. By the early 17th century, the French had built a settlement on the west of Hispaniola and called it Saint-Domingue.

Detailed explanation-2: -The official name was La Española, meaning “The Spanish (Island)". It was also called Santo Domingo, after Saint Dominic.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to its independence, Haiti was a French colony known as St. Domingue. St. Domingue’s slave-based sugar and coffee industries had been fast-growing and successful, and by the 1760s it had become the most profitable colony in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Rijswijk (1697) formally ceded the western third of Hispaniola from Spain to France, which renamed it Saint-Domingue.

Detailed explanation-5: -Read a brief summary of this topic Haiti, whose population is almost entirely descended from African slaves, won independence from France in 1804, making it the second country in the Americas, after the United States, to free itself from colonial rule.