What Did the US Do With Cuba Before the 20 Century?

For most of the nineteenth century, it was about slavery. It was also about commerce. There were northern interests who wanted trade more with cuba as a spanish colony. And so i would say it was both of them. You know, after the end of slavery, that desire to annex cubo as a state disappears virtually,. Not, you know, not entirely, and it resumes again. But even in the talk about a ation, it wasn't about cube as a state. It was more about a territory.