Today is veterans day.
We started of talking about the Spanish American War. He told the Purto Ricans that we wanted to buy cuba and then they said they would rather see it sink to the ground before they sell it to us. We then talked about all of the causes. we talked about some people who helped in certain ways like for jose marti and General Valeriano Weyler. They set up concentration camps in cuba and that was General Valeriano Weyler. They didn't kill people, but people died due to defficiancy in health care and food. In 1895, Spain and the Cubans broke out in a civil war. The conflicted was described as bloody and brutal by Senator Redfield Proctor. Yellow Press by William Randolph Hearst reported the brutality of the Spanish General Weyler. The Yellow Press instigated the war and united the general public to want war with spain. they made people feel sorry for the cubans. Joseph Pulitzer was an outstanding journalist. but they strechted the truth trying to get people to favor the way. The Yellow Press was named that because yellow kid was the first colored strip in the newspapers. The USS Maine sunk. The causes are the USS Maine sinking, The Yellow Press, Butcher Weyler and his concentration camps, The De Lome Letter, and Jose Marti's destruction of US property in Cuba-making it look as though spain did it.
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