november 23rd 2009

[4Danielle]

Hawaii,they became part of the u.s. because of sugar.they had no sugar tarifffs,1959, when it became part of u.s.we wanted them part of us because of the sugar.Spanish american war.causes;destruction of Am property and investments in Cuba.-Consentration camps in Cuba, treatment of Cubano-The yellowpress was newspapers. it stretches the truth.William Hearst was an impeerialist. So he wrote about the warJoseph and Hearst were against eachother.ex. of yellowpress was the sinking of the us battleship maine. Yellow press said Spain did it. really an internal explotian did. "remember the maine"today people think it was an accident.the De lome letter, Printed letter from the spanish minister to the us. Dupuy de lome- letter put down prsident McKinley. changed public opinion about spaniards.Enrique Dupay De LomeJingstem, belief that us should go to war. Poosevelt Louge, B.B. owners. Thought that going to war u.s would go into another depression.We won.Battle of mannila bay, was in the philipeanswe won easily, commedor goerge duy was the captain for americans his group of ships destroyed the spanish fleet ealily.in the battle of cardenas, spanish won it, our captain, inside bagely was the first us officer to be killed in war.THe us navy did awesome, but the army did horrible, because they didn't really know how to fight.spanish blew up one of the ships and they shot there captain.The people wanted war but present mCkenly didn'tteddy roosevelt, the rough riders, he would quit his job just straight up and went on into war.he volunteered, with these tough guys and went up to Kettle hill, and set up things for San Juan hill.we won San Juan hill, teddy was big on how he was gunna be in history.they changed the name because teddy won that one.john hay, named the war splended little warWe won, it was short, and we got a lot out of it.Treaty of Paris, Joe.We won, by signwe payed 20 million for phillipeans.and portarico and guamPortaRico.We take it after spain war,how we controlled, we took it. military controlled it. we past the forker act.today it's a common wealth. they can't vote for president.anything else they could.They kinda' had the best in both worlds.we put together a government rulled by the portaricans.