However, there was a different attitude within the U.S. government. The Cleveland administration said a Cuban victory might lead to "the establishment of a white and black republic," since Cuba had a mixture of the two races. ... Thus a sovereign Cuban nation-state would not be preferable to the U.S. ... Americans who were once sympathetic to the Cuban cause and struggle for freedom, all at once became unaccommodating to the idea of an autonomous Cuban state. A dejected Cuban population had simply traded oppressors. ...

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The poet Jose Marti was very famous in Cuba for bringing about the Cuban revolution. ... Marti knew that the U.S. simply wanted Cuba because it can bring about more wealth to America. ... "Once the U.S. military is in Cuba, who will drive them out?" ... can have this vision for Cuba, then why not for other countries. ... They don't like Chavez's form of running the government so they decided to try and have it be changed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Numerous internal movements had been crushed, although they were successful for a time in Mexico and then in Cuba, revolutionist spirit allied the independent Latin American countries in a common fight for emancipation.4 The Cuban Revolution was especially exciting to Latin America and was seen as a major step to a better future for all the nations in South America. ... After the Cuban Revolution, Castro gained power and soon was recognized as a follower of Marxism and had open relations with the Soviet Union. ... In "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta," the "good" revolutionaries battle the ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

• Word Count: 4994
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The reason the terrorist attacked the United States on September 11 is due to the imperialistic influence of American culture, politics and beliefs upon the people of the world which have poisoned and destroyed other countries cultures and governments. ... If that wasn't enough, the United States then passed the Platt Amendment, in 1901, which declared its unilateral right to intervene in Cuban Affairs. ... "The United States went in and overthrow a democratically elected government as well as the government of Allende because they did not please the United States and due to these invo...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many have also said that the gains in independence that evolved would not have even been attemptable if the breakdown in the central government of Spain had not begun in the early 19th century. ... These events directly resulted in every Spanish American Colony except for Puerto Rico and Cuba, gaining independence before 1825. ... Directly following the revolutions it continued to be a difficult task in some of the countries to organize the people under a unified government, with a direct purpose, due to the lengthy years of colonial influence....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The three major groups consist of: Mexicans 64%, Puerto Ricans 10% and Cubans 6%. ... "The term Hispanic gained acceptance by pick-up if government use for eunsus to identify people of Spanish Heritage.""3 However, it was meant to be used as an ethnic distinction although it includes all races and physical traits. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It's a huge amount of benefit that many governments ever dreamed of: "[but] the Central America had no such resources. ... It's funny and it's the fact that all Central America governments, one time or another, wanted to build ocean-to-ocean railroad, taking advantage of the narrow territories of the continent. ... However, this also started to raise a concern from the local public that a foreign company contemned the law, broke the contract with the government. ... United were forming a "fruit monopoly" which later on involved many lawsuits and government's ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Source 1) In Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad, Yoruba religious rites, beliefs, music and myths is evident these days. ... In Brazil, Yoruba religious activities are called Anago or Shango, and in Cuba they are designated Lucumi. ... Santeria, the adaptation of Yoruba and Ifa with Catholicism, came to the states first with Puerto Ricans in the forties and fifties and then with the flood of Cuban refugees in the sixties. ...

• Word Count: 7692
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School