We bought Alaska for 7.2 Million dollars.
The united states was interested in buying Hawaii because of the sugar cane, and thought it would be easy to get.
Queen Liliuokalani wanted to get rid of voting regulations.
We annexed our way into Hawaii on August 12, 1898.
Causes of the Spanish American war
- The USS Maine was sunk.
- The yellow press
- butcher weyler and his treatment of Cubans in the concentration camps
- the De Lome letter
- Jose Marti's destruction of US property in Cuba making it look as though Spain did it
The Yellow Press instigated the war
United the general public to want war with Spain
Made people feel sorry for Cubans
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