Author Question: Cuba developed into a major sugar producer in the first part of the nineteenth century because A) ... (Read 93 times)

clippers! · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Cuba developed into a major sugar producer in the first part of the nineteenth century because

A) U.S. investors rushed into the island after the War of 1812.
B) a civil war in Jamaica destroyed it as a sugar producer.
C) the British invested heavily in the island.
D) Haiti was knocked out as a sugar producer by its devastating war for independence.

Question 2

Antonio Maceo opposed the Pact of Zanjn, ending the Ten Years' War, because it

A) abolished slavery and established a period of apprenticeship for liberated slaves.
B) offered the prospect of free, unlimited trade with the United States.
C) provided greater political autonomy to Cuba, but preserved the institution of slavery.
D) failed to achieve both national independence and abolition of slavery.