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- - - - 4 occupations
- - - - when Magoon arrived Cuba's national treasury had a 13 million dollar surplus, when he left Cuba had a 12 million dollar deficit
        
        Magoon ordered regular public works projects that ultimately just helped American contractors
        
        Frank Steinhart received the majority of the profit from these public works projects
        
        Frank Steinhart remained in Cuba after the troops left as the American consul general in Havana
        
        Steinhart was rewarded for expanding the Electric Railway and the Light and Power Company
        
        Steinhart was also a financial representative for a 16.5 million dollar loan in 1909 for sewage construction in Havana
        
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- - - - Roosevelt sent Sumner Welles, but by the time he arrived a revolutionary government that Welles couldn't control had taken over
        
        Welles urged Fulgencio Batista to take over the rule of the island
        
        Batista was successful and ruled Cuba from 1934 to 1944
        
        In 1940 he wrote the most democratic and progressive constitution in the history of Cuba
- - - - Minor Keiths United Fruit Company aquired 200,000 acres
        
        by 1902 the US controlled 90 percent of export trade of Havana cigars
        
        Between 1895 and 1902 US investments in cuba almost doubled to 100 million dollars.
- - - - welcomed Americans for "a slice of the economic pie" in return
        
        Estrada Palma hoped for US annexation of Cuba
        
        His reelection in 1905 involved severe voter fraud
        
        led to violent protests
        
        US troops returned to the island in 1906
        
        installed a provisional government and stayed for 3 years
- - - - they ran the railroads, public utilities, mining and manufacturing companies, sugar and tobacco plantations, and shipping and banking concerns
        
        managerial jobs become the main source of income for the native upper class
        
        in 1917 President Wilson sent troops to Cuba for a fourth time to end a rebellion against Mario Garcia Menocal
        
        Menocal was backed by the US and had been reelected because of another fraudulent election