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I have a few alternate times in mind, but the main question is: could the US have purchased or seized Cuba earlier than 1898, and when/how might this have occurred?

I was thinking:
* 1819 - Adams-Onis Treaty - a weak point in Spain's colonial power
* 1848 - Polk purchases the island
* 1860s - Confederates seize the territory, and the US claims it in its defeat of the Confederacy.
* 1898 - OTL Spanish-American War - when the US got the island in our timeline.

Any other possibilities that I might have missed?

I'm asking so that I can have Cuba assimilate into the United States and become a state by the end of the 19th century.

Thanks!
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