Sugar mills converted into monocultural plantations (jan 1, 1898 – jan 1, 1945)

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Sugar mill owners between the period of 1898 in 1945 turn the Sugarmills into monocultural plantations in response to the economy of the 20th century. The sugar meals and tobacco, cigar, and cigarette factories game the United States is attention due to their fast productions and large amount of produce. Women and children were the primary workers within these industries. Puerto Rican trees went to the United States 95% of the time. By 1914, the coffee production that once was study failed.

The sugar industry rose along with the economy. Puerto Rican mill owners in French and Spaniard residence took the United States is corporate capital. The United States had for operations that were part of the United sugar refineries that were owned by Cuba and the Dominican republic. In 1870, Congress made the tariff wall in order to domestic producers of sugar this had an effect of putting sugar producers into bankruptcy. Do United States acquire jurisdiction over Puerto Rico where there was free trade between the two. Capital flowed into Puerto Rico with the effect of modernizing its sugar processing Mills due to the United States is influence.

The United States had formed a tobacco trust that had basis rules for cigarettes, but Puerto Ricans had issues when it came to Brandon local marketing. The tobacco trust controlled cigarettes and cigar production as well as controlled the tobacco leaf. There was a fall of the industry due to the exports.

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