Why did the United States have an interest in Cuba based on its location?

U.S. interest in purchasing Cuba had begun long before 1898. Following the Ten Years War, American sugar interests bought up large tracts of land in Cuba. Alterations in the U.S. sugar tariff favoring home-grown beet sugar helped foment the rekindling of revolutionary fervor in 1895.

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name two ways organisms join a population and two ways organisms leave a population. two ways organisms join a population are birth rate and immigration. two ways they leave are death rate and emigration.

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