Cuba Developed into a Major Sugar Producer in the First

question 49

Multiple Choice

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.

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