Today is veterans day. more notes. its 11/11/11. OMG.
What caused an increase in tension between the united states and Spain?
- in 1895 civil war broke out in cuba between Spain and the Cubans
- The conflict was described by senator redfield proctor of Vermont as "bloody and brutal."
- newspapers(yellow press-partucularly those owned by William Randolph Hearst) reported the brutality of the spanish general weyler.
- The New York Journal reports "... blood on the roadsides, blood in the villages, blood, blood, blood!"
The yellow Press
- instigated the war
- United the general public to want war with spain
- Made people feel sorry for the Cubans.
causes of spanish- american war 1898
- the uss maine sinking
- 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.
teller amendment
- imperialists vs. anti-imperialists in us
Three fronts in the spanish-american war
- Philippines
- Cuba
- Pueto Rico
Treaty of Paris-1898
- Brought an official end to the war
- Spain gave Cuba Independece(Kind of)
- US got control of the philippines( $20 million), Guam and Puerto Rico
Misc.
- The US army was not prepared to fight this war- the navy was excellent!
- roughly 3000 US soldiers died i nthe war-only 385 deaths-2500 died due to disease.
- lasted April 25-August 12, 1898
- The US became an empire for the first time in our history.
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