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Cuba remained loyal to Spain while much of South America rebelled in the 1820s. Let's assume for the heck of it that the revolutionary fever hopped from the coasts of what are now Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico to inflame Cuba similarly. Would either James Monroe or Quincy Adams seize upon this series of events to support the rebels with US forces (by then, Florida was in American hands having been ceded by Spain in 1819)? And if so, would there have developed an increasingly close relationship between the US and Cuba such that Cuba might pull a Dominican Republic ploy and ask for inclusion in the US?
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