Spanish-American War- Cuba wanted independence. spain was a dwindling empire. the US had been interested in Cuba. US tried to buy Cuba in 1854. we have always wanted it. Jose Marti destroyed american property and made it look like it was cuba that was destroying our stuff. yellow jurnalisum when writter take things that are going on around the world and make them seem bigger and worse than what they really are.
causes: USS marine sinking, Yellow press, Weyler and his treatment or Cubans in concentration camps., De Lome Letter, destruction of US property.
Rough Rider: any tough guys
we won the war got a bunch of land
treaty of paris: official end of the war, Cuba got independence and US got phlippines.
-battles/famous people involved - rough riders- people riding horses going into war. the first united states calvery. at frist they didnt like the nick name rough riders but it stuck. it was made up of tough guys, indians, farmers and solders etc or other tough strong guys. Dr. wood and teddy rosavlet was the cernal. they had 2 battles and bc of the jungle they could use their horses so they had to walk.
-Results/Treaty -
US Control of Puerto Rico - one of the main things in the Spanish American war. US became their protector we gave them a better government. they are US citizens. They want to become a state right now. the only thing they cant do is vote for the president for the United States because they aren't a state. they pay american taxes. they can do everything that we can except for voting. they are protected by out military.
US Control of Cuba -south of Fl. Teller Amendment. Anti-Imp. Imperialists. they got independence after the war ended. the strings that were attached were the Platt-Amendment. they couldnt go into dept with other countries. You had to let the US intervene when ever we thought we needed too. US took control of Guantanamo Bay. in 1943 we cut those stings and they got independence
US Control of Philippines -america wanted it for a long time and after the war Spain said we could have it after we won the spanish american war. but right before we took it, Philippines got mad and said not bc they wanted to be independence. lot more deaths in this 'war' than in the spanish american war.
Open Door Policy in China - equal trade between all countries from china
Boxer Rebellion in China - took lat 1899 are early 1900's they were a group of people who wanted to stop westren ways they tried to stop rail roads. they wanted to keep the old ways. us sent in troops and made a point that its not ok to kill innocent people and we cute the 'boxers' heads off to make a point. the Chinese wanted to keep their old ways and didnt want the western ways. so we started attacking them bc they were attacking our Europeans.
Teddy Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize - won the Nobel peace price he was the mediator between Russia and japan. made the deal so they would stop fighting.
Getting control and building Panama Canal - before the panama canal we had to go all the way around south america or go over land which took way too long. late 1800's the french started buildings and they had to stop bc all of their workers were dying money. so they postponed it for 4 years untill we bought and took over the rights from France and we started finishing. they had a lot of disease from mascetos and it was killing off our workers. they had a new leader come in and clean it all up. they set up towns along the canals it took 10 years to finish it.
Roosevelt Corollary and Monroe Doctrine -passed to not allow ppl to colinizedinthe states and we wouldnt do it in other places. but we could keep the colones. we didnt want to be run by another country warning to Europe to stay out of the western hemisphere.
Big Stick Diplomacy--"Speak softly and carry a big stick" - helped with regulations in trade unions. used in the press with cartoons. Latin America. example: what happened in Panama. panama was not independent until we sent our troops down.
Taft's Dollar Diplomacy -it was a policy follow by Taft. mostly in Latin america. creating commercial interest. trying to best help american commercial interest or trading with other countries around the world. economic imperialism.
Wilson's Missionary Diplomacy - we would ignore any country who was mean to their people and hostile towards the US. it didnt bring good relations with us. it was latin america countries
US issues with Mexico - watchful waiting's. they arrested some us sailors.
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