War goals of U.S.
1.seure full independence for cuba
2.Teller Amendment-said U.S. would not take over Cuba when war was over
Events of the war
- Roosevelt wired commodore George Dewey to seize the phillipnes when war was declared.
- U.S. easily took control of the islands
Jingoism-belief that U.S. should go to war-Roosevelt, Lodge, B.B. owners-many beileve jingoes pressured McKinley to declare war-McKinely had wanted desperately to stay out of the war. Thought that by going to war, U.S. would go into another depression.
John Hay "A Splendid little War"
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