The Cuban Rebellion

The Cuban´s ended the Spanish in a war on 1895 after a lot of attempts of trying to get back their freedom from the Spanish Empire since 1511. The cuban rebellion was known for a long time to produce sugar that is until the Spanish came along. In the early 1800ś on 1825 the Spanish invoked martial law in cuba. This disabled the Cubans in having their own independence and restricted them to fight or operate a press and even associate. This is when the uprise from Cuba came to be throughout this whole uprising for all of Cuban descent. Cuban´s being one of the new world were people trying to establish freedom and rid themselves from any rule from any other country including the Spanish who were very strong at this period. In the beginning of 1812 the United states implemented the Monroe doctrine for protection and fear that Cubans would threaten America so they restricted any oversea encroachments from the Spanish. Everything thing that happened here came from the British using the carribean as a staging area during the American revolution and a war of 1812. The United States viewed Cuba as an american possession. On 1825 The secretary of state feared that the cuban slaves would come to America and spark a slave uprising. Many politicians thought the Cuban´s were too weak to maintain freedom from the european´s. …show more content…
A lot of conflicts between the Spain and cuba´s spread and went straight forward to the war of 1825. The wealthy Cuban elite Criollos and Peninsulares feared the population of the slave so much that they denied any more push for independence during the 1840´s when only forty percent of slaves were the population. An Agreement ended for all the fighting that is until 1895 when they decided to rise up in the