When the Spanish settled in Cuba, they saw the possibility of profit on a fertile island. Crops of tobacco, sugarcane, and coffee were some of the natural resources that offered a flourishing economy. Sugarcane quickly became Cuba's primary product and an important world producer (www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/History-of-Cuba). Sugar also became a product of economic disaster that would lead to the collapse of an abundant country's economy. The United States' involvement in sugar production …showed first 75 words of 2078 total…

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