The awnser is b cause of their natural resources
It was to pay down their war debts from fighting the French in the Seven Years' War.
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The US government supported Cuba in the Spanish-American War because A the government viewed Cuba as a nation in need of independence. Granted, the United States wanted Cuban independence from Spain so that the US could exert indirect political and economic control over the nation, its peoples, and its resources.