I am sick... ughh... this sucks. hopefully i keep my bodily fluids inside today. yuck,Anyways... we went over Mr.Bruns' power point again.General Valeriano Weyler - (the butcher) people thought he killed people.Spanish put Cubans in concentration camps and we felt bad for them.the maine was sunk and they blamed spain.New York world and New York Journal. Newspapers that wrote stories about everything happening in Cuba. They majorly stretched the truth just to sell newspaper.They are called the yellow press. Yellow press helped pus us into this war. Yellow press got its name from the first cartoon that came out. It was yellow. The yellow kid.Enrique Dupay de Lome - McKinley is weak, someone who wants war, bad leader.De lome letter.Sinking of the maine. Sent down to save US business.. It exploded. Blamed Spain. REmember the Maine Hell with Spain was the battle cry.Teller Amendement. Imperialist VS. Anti-imperialist.We only going to war to get Cuba.Phillippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico. - Islands we took over.Commodore George Dewey smashes spains fleet.Aguinaldo fought spain for independemce. - was an alli... then started fighting us.Navy kicked butt.. Army sucked.Rough Riders. Led by Teddy R. became famous.Jon Hay "A splendid Little War"why? - WE won, short, easy, cheap, got alot of land.Treaty of Paris 1898 -- offical end to war.- spain gave cuba independence (kinda)- US got control of Philippines. and other little islands.Army - not prepared to fight. whool uniform... hot, stiky, not comfortable.- roughly 3000 US troops died, 385 battle, 2500 from sickness.US became empire for the first time in our history.Power point is on US hhistory page if needed...Now starting power point Chapter !0. 3Aquiring New Land. Kept moving west so the west finally got settled. We starting taking other islands.Puerto Rico claimed by the spanish Crown in 1493.
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