Touissant l'ouverture hoped to free haiti from european control by taking advantage of the revolution in the country which ruled haiti. which european country controlled haiti?

a. england

b. france

c. portugal

d. spain

The correct answer is B. France.

That is why the main language in Haiti today is French.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 4 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. It was inhabited by the Taíno, an Arawakan people, who variously called their island Ayiti, Bohio, or Kiskeya (Quisqueya). Columbus promptly claimed the island for the Spanish Crown, naming it La Isla Española ("the Spanish Island"), later Latinized to Hispaniola.