The Study Of American Policy Toward Cuba In Eighteen Fifties

After independent, the president of United States, George Washington was to developan isolationist foreign policy, to prevent U.S. involved in the disputes of the Europeancontinent. Into the 19th century , with the strength of the power U.S. tried to get theSpanish colony of Cuba into the its territory .Several of the founding pioneers ofU.S. had the idea to aggressive Cuba. However, due to their less strength, U.S.couldnot compete for Cuba with the European powers (mainly Britain) . In the 1820’s, theSecretary of State John Quincy Adams put forward "Ripe fruit" Policy to getCuba.The United States can not afford to occupy Cuba, so they wished Spain ruledCuba remainly, At the same time preventing European powers occupation of Cuba until theyhad the ability to annexe Cuba. "Monroe Doctrine" was the further development of the"ripe fruit" policy.In 1830’s and 1840’s, under the call of "manifest destiny", the United states obtained alarge number of land . And the movement of "Youth United States" to establishAmerican-style political system integration in the expansion for the future expansiondirection. Cuba occupied an important position in the geopolitical, so caused theexpansionist interest to get.The annexation of Cuba can occupy a strategic place, theSouthern plantation owners can also increase the political forces. The United Stateshad no patience to wait for Cuba to fall into the U.S. naturally.During the first half of the nineteenth Century, the Spanish civil unrest.The feudallandlord class still dominant, capitalism was weak.As the colonial empires of Spain,As a colonial empire, overseas colonies had important Significance to the Spaingovernment.The Spanish government to extract colonies(for example on the extortexcessive taxes to make up for domestic fiscal deficit. while Cuba occupies animportant position,the trade with Cuba had a great significance.Fertile Cuba providedadequate raw materials and tax revenue to the home country. In the Frence EmpireⅠ,the Spanish mainland was occupied by France, Spain and its Latin America coloniesisolated.In 1810, Dolo Gonzalez’s voice opened the prelude to the Latin American War of Independence .Spain’s colonial rule was end. The remnants of the colonialforces retreated to the island of Cuba.So Cuba could not independence.The salvers rised up,but was failure. So that part of the Cuban plantation ownerswanted to independence or merged into U.S.,so had the Lopez expedition. But thegovernment of United States adherenced to the legislation, the expedition could notget the support of the Cuban , and ultimately failed.But the slavery advocatessupported the expedition. The question of Cuba gradually involved with the AmericanCivil event.The president of Pierce belonged to the Democratic Party. He was on behalf of theinterests of the Southern plantation owners and actively carried out actions to annexeCuba.With the suggestion of Secretary of State William L. Marcy, Minister to SpainPierre Soulémet with Minister to Great Britain James Buchanan and Minister toFrance John Y. Mason at Ostend, Belgium to discuss the matter.They formulatedOstend Manifesto and declared that the U.S. would be "justified in wresting" theisland from Spanish hands if Spain refused to sell. The declaration was opposed andfailed, but when the time came, it would be mentioned agin.As draftsman, Buchanan was easily elected President in 1856.Heremainedcommittedto Cuban annexation, He Put forward "30 millions bill".was hindered by popularopposition and the growing sectional conflict; not until thirty years after the Civil Wardid the so-called Cuban Question again come to national prominence.Eighteen fiftiesAmerican policy toward Cuba far-reaching influence, to a certain extent, acceleratedthe American Civil war. The main content of this paper was to explore Americanpolicy toward Cuba ’s change in the eighteen fifties, and its effects on both sides.