Today bruns showed us a cartoon with Uncle Sam in the background and some fat guy that's concerned. And how Russia didn't want us to have Alaska cause they didn't want us to take over Russia.
Asia wanted Hawaii but so did the USA. Sugar cane was popular - Sugar Plantation. In 1890 the Mckinly terriff took rates up but allowed Hawaiian sugar to enter into the States without having to pay terrifs like every other country in the world. Pearl Harbor built in 1887 as a naval base for the United State. The Hawaiians had the US men outnumbered. The last fiftyth state was Hawaii in 1959. William Mckinly took over Hawiia.
Causes of the Spanish American War -
Spain said they'd rather sink to the bottom of the ocean than become a part of the united states, In the late 1800's the Cubans wanted independence from Spain. The US supported the Cubans, because we felt sorry and we wanted help them get independence. And they were part of us. Unsuccessful. US invested a lot of money into their sugar cane. 2nd fight for independence. The spain people sent men to Cuba and they set up concentration camps and some Cubans died. The US saw what was happening through the Yellow Press - the exaggerated things and called him the Butcher. The Yellow Press (journalist who stretched the truth) made Spain people look bad, which made the States want to help Cuba more, but Cuba didn't want help.
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