some causes of the spanish american war: 1 destruction of am. property and invested in cuba. 2. concentration camps in cuba - treatment of cubans 3. the yellow press- hearst and pulitzer- sensationilsm made things look a lot worse than they really were 4. sinking of the us battleship main. yellow press said spain did it =- really an internal explosion. "remember the main" 5. de lome letter - yellow press printed letter from spain minister to the us - dupuy de lome - letter put down president mckinley - changed public opinion about spaniards 6. jingolism- belief that us should go to war - roosevelt, lodge, b.b owners- many believe lingoes pressured mckinley the declare war- mckinley had wanted desperately to stay out of the war- though that by going to war us would go into another depression. *due to these reasons mckinley asked congress to declair wasapril 19, 1898 us declared war * war was delared even after after spain had accepted an untimatum that would have freed cuba.battle of manilla bay. comadore george day was the captian for the americans and battle stared in the philipines. easily defeated the spanish fleet at manilla. battle of ardens and the first americqan naval officer was killed here. the us navy did outstanding here. the battle of cettle hill TR led the ruffriders into battle.and also into a battle of san wan hill but had a bigger part in this battle than cettle. john hay was the secretary of state and gave the spanish american the the the spended was not very many people died and was very short and we gained land. hinting the nickname.we bought phillipeens 20 million for it. guam we had also taken puertico.
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