Monday- Work day for project
Tuesday- final work day for project
Wednesday-
Spanish American War
-Causes of the War
- Yellow Journalism american newspaper lied to the americans
- Americans felt bad for Cuba and helped them out
- General Weyler and his concentration policy came out sent thousands of cubans, a third of the cuban population had been forced in the concentration camps
- Causes of the war
- The United States declared war on Spain after the U.S. warship exploded
- Cubans wanted to become independent
- Trade with cuba started to decrease and United States had a lot of money invested into Cuba buisnesses
- Jose Marti- came over to the United States to try to get people to come with him and to go after Spain.
-Major Battles
- Kettle Hill
- San Juan Hill
Sun Juan Hill
- July 1st 1898 and most significant U.S. land victory
- Rough riders lead the way
July 1,1998 goal was to capture Santiago de Cuba
- The Hill had a strong Blockhouse 750 defenders and general linares
Rough Riders
-Theodore Roosevelt
- African American Buffalo Soliders US 35 dead Spanish 58
Important Leaders- Roosevelt
- Organized the first US volunteer Cavalry
Went through 23,000 applications
- Group of players, hunters, cowboys and Native Americans - rough riders
Lenoard Wood
- Govenor General of Phillipines
- Military Govenor of cuba
- Commanded the rough riders
William T Sampson
- United States Navy
- Known for Santiago de cuba victory
- Major Fronts
- Carribean and the Phillipines
- Indiana Iowa Masschussets Oregon four new battleships more powerful than spanish ships in Phillipines
- U.S. won the war/ Cuba Guam, Puerto Rico and Phillipines
Naval Power and 4 months of war
Ended the war Treaty of Paris
Paid 20 million for Phillipines
- U.S. have military bases on Cuba/goverment we can see fit
- Ambassador of London told roosevelt splendid little war
- Typhoid fever 87% total deaths obtained from food/water
- 375 died
- U.S. first overseas empire
- annexation of Hawaii/ understaffed and lacked training
- wealthier and newly built navy
- War started out just about cuba
- Enrique Dupay de Lome
- Wrote a letter to someone else but it was intercepted by the united states. Mckinely is weak, wants war and a low politician, whatever leaders tell you to do
Thursday-
Foreign Policy
- He saw little intrest in foreign affairs when he got into office.
- He wanted to focus on domestic issues more than foreign issues
- Sae relationships between foreign and domestic policies
Solving diffrent problems with countries
-Wilson's idea of the United States to deny and recongize any Latin Americans viwed as hostile
- wanted to help the non hostile countries on a christian based term
- Avoided dictatorship
- Promote democracy/ unwritten addition to the Monroe Doctrine
-International negotations backed by the threat of force
- Speak softely and carry a big stick
- Represent the United States
- Was to carry the President Roosevelts foreign policy
- Was to use in the construction of Panama Canal and Russo-Japan War
Dollar Diplomacy
- A form of American foreign policy and give them loans and made to foeign policies
- President William Howard Taft term
-President Theodere Roosevelt laid out the foundation for this approach in 1904 with roosevlets corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
-The Roosevelt Collary-
- It was an additon to the Monroe Doctrine
- The US would use force to protect intrests in Latin America
Panama Canal
- Railroad was the only thing connecting the oceans in panama
- Was deystroyed by Chagres River
- The French attempted to build the canal but lost many lifes and gave up on the expedition
- America wanted the canal
- Panama left with the help of America's Navy and gave America the canal and the French 40 million dollars for its machinery
- Roosevelt talked to the columbian goverment about building the canal, then america talked about a treaty but they didn't want to deal with the united states
- Construction was started in 1903 finished in 1914
- The canal is about 48 miles long
- The canal has a water lock system that acts as massive elevator
- It usually takes about 8 hours to from the ship to cross the lake
- The canal 375 million
- 10 million to panama and 40 million was paid to the french Company
Friday-
Mckinley was born January 29,1843 in Niles Ohio
After the panic of 1893 led to ecnomic depression
- Mckinley won the republican vote
- He ran agianst William Jennings Bryan
- He won the popular vote by 600,000 votes and was the biggst win in 25 years he also won the 1/3 of the electoral vote
- Soon after mckinley took office The Dingley Tarrif Act was passed supported by marine Congressman Nelson Dingley
- Mckinley reelection and assination
- Ran against Bryan again
- Mckinley ran on an imperalism platform and relected with a bigger win than 4 years
- His toured ended in Buffalo, New York where he gave an speech on Septemeber 5th in front of 50,000 people at the Pan American Exposition
- Mckinley was standing in the rececing line at the expostition unemployed detriot mill worker shot mckinely
- Leon Czlogsoz
-1873-1901 Born in detriot parents were immigarnats so he moved a lot
- 1893 he worked in a wire mill in cleavland
- Wages were cut and he was fired and blacklised for going on a failed strike
- Led to hatred towards capitalism
- He began focusing on the inequality between upper and working class
- In 1898 he quit his job and moved to his family's farm
- He developed a facinsation with radical works and anachrist gaetino Bresci
- He attended several lectures given by Emma Goldman about anachry
- He had heard Mckinley would be in Buffalo, New york so he went to Buffalo
- He rented a room and he attended the Pan American Exposition
- He had shot him in the chest as he hid the gun and Mckinley died eight days later
- He supported anarchist he didnt want a goverment
- He believed that was the cause of what he believed to be a corrupt goverment and wanted to help the working class
- He allegedly got the idea from a speech by Emma Goldman at the Franklin Club
- He was arrested on the spot
- He was tried and convicted of murder in two days
- He was excuted using the eletric chair on October 29th 1901
- His final words " I killed the president because he was the enemy of good people"
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