1. What do you know about…CUBA?
The American government does NOT allow Americans to travel to Cuba!!
Why does Cuba and America HATE each other??

2. Cuba 1958

3. Discovered in 1492 by Columbus
Spanish Colony ( )
Columbus enslaved 100,000 Arawak indians who would not convert to Christianity

4. Population: 630,000
290,000 White
120,000 Free Black
220,000 African Slaves
Colonial Cuba
Exported Coffee, Tobacco, Sugar

5. U.S won control in 1898 after the Spanish –American War.
Cuba gained independence in 1902

6. INDEPENDENCE??
At the beginning of 1959 United States companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands – almost all the cattle ranches – 90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions – 80 percent of the utilities – practically all the oil industry – and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports. U.S. President John F. Kennedy,1960 [56]