Today in U.S History we are presenting our blog #7...
Chapter 10 Topics...
9. Alaska-- Uncle sam hiding in the saddows, All happy smiling- 7.2 million to buy alaska- Guy in the back consered is John Bull- Lion in back ='s like our eagle....
10. Taking Hawaii(344-345)--- my topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think i did pretty good on presenting.....
11. Causes of the Spanish-American War(346-348)-- Fighting Spain in Cuba with Americans.... Started when cuba was still apart of spain-- U.S wanted to buy cuba- they rather is senck to the bottom of ocean-- 1800 cuba revolt from spain.. we supported cuba, we saw cuba as us but smaller- wanted to help them with independence... We invested alot of money in to their sugar plantations.. Started a second war- Jose Marti- organized american protery- to try to make us help the cubans... He did everything in his power to make us mad and come fight them... Start setting up constrintration camps- alot of cubans died... General Valeriano Weyler set up the camps( the butcher). The yellow press- made spain people look really bad- made us want to help even more than we were- The strached the truth- the got rid of camps and they promised self govered to cubans.. Letter to spainish mister..William Randolph Hearst and joseph Pulitwer were fight to see who sold the most yellow papers... The sinking of the main was the main reason we went to war with spain- supposely the sunk our ship...
12. Major battles/generals in the Spanish-American War(348-350)
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