Please help me out. I would greatly appreciate it! According to this cartoon, what is the duty of the hour for the United States? Why do you think the cartoonist suggests it is a duty for the United States to invade Cuba and declare war on Spain?

For the the duty of the hour

Explanation:

Dalrymple is trying to spread support for US involvement in Cuba. The caption reads "The duty of the hour; - to save her not only from Spain, but from a worse fate". ... This cartoon makes the point that only Spain benefited from the transaction, and the US is stuck with a problem

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Explanation:

According to this cartoon, what is the duty of the hour for the United States? Why do you think the cartoonist suggests it is a duty for the United States to invade Cuba and declare war on Spain Cuba's economy became even more closely linked with that of the United States than it had been earlier in the century. By the 1880s the US consumed most of Cuba’s exported sugar, tobacco, cacao, coffee, tropical fruits, and nuts; US exports in return were cereals, meats, manufactured goods, condensed milk, vegetable oils, cheese, and fuel Cuba also exported iron ore. The US imported all of Cuba’s copper production, about a quarter of US copper imports. Additionally, due to a sharp drop of sugar prices that took place from early 1884, the old Cuban "sugar nobility," unable to mechanize and cut costs, began to disintegrate and lose its dominant role in the island's economy and society. This facilitated U.S. penetration of the Cuban economy. Sugar estates and mining interests passed from Spanish and Cuban to U.S. hands, and it was U.S. capital, machinery and technicians that helped to savethe sugar mills that remained competitive with European beet sugar.  

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