What does this woman being threatened by the snake represent

I believe you are referring to the famous political cartoon created by American cartoonist Joseph Keppler for Puck magazine in 1881 and titled In danger. Puck. "What are you going to do about it?" In it, a large snake, which represents monopolies involving U.S. senators (the word monopoly and the names of various senators are written throughout its skin), has its tail wrapped around the dome of the U.S. Capitol, as if suggesting that it controls the U.S. government, and, menacingly, faces a female figure that personifies (or represents) Lady Liberty, while, to the left of this female figure, Puck (a personification of Puck magazine) asks Uncle Sam "What are you going to do about it?"

The personification of Liberty is a representation of all Americans, who are threatened by the tyranny of the monopolies - if the government does not prevent it.  In the years where this cartoon was created, the telegraph and the gas industries, among others, were controlled by monopolies that charged ridiculously high amount for their services.  

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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i think the answer is: cuba wanted to be independent from spain, and the u.s. wanted to end spanish rule in the west.

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-lavira : )