1. Cuba in the Great Depression By Grace Douthit

2. Cause ●People were buying stocks on margin causing the price of stocks to go down ●Stock Markets crashed causing banks to fail ●Businesses went bankrupt causing massive unemployment

3. Effect ●The price of sugar cane to decrease ●Still bitter from the Platt Amendment o Demanded the withdrawal of troops after the Spanish American War ●Caused problems with the US by trying to oust the Cuban president, Gerardo Machado

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