The failure of the mother country to allow the Dominicans representation in the Spanish Cortes and its readiness to levy taxes stirred up resentment that soon ended in revolution.

Unable to check this new trouble, and awed by the threatening attitude of the United States, Spain decided to withdraw in 1865.

The Dominicans thus were left with their independence and a chance--which they promptly seized--to renew their commotions.

So serious did these disturbances become that in 1869 the President of the reconstituted republic sought annexation to the United States but without success.

American efforts, on the other hand, were equally futile to restore peace and order in the troubled country until many years later.
The intervention of Spain in Santo Domingo and its subsequent withdrawal could not fail to have disastrous consequences in its colony of Cuba, the "Pearl of the Antilles" as it was proudly called.