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U.S. History - Have your textbooks today!

U.S. History - Have your textbooks today!. We will try this again PG. 137 – Thanks – Happy Homecoming!. Worldwide Ambitions. Cuba a Spanish colony!. U.S. Business Interests. Traded slaves until 1862 Sugar Plantations 1860’s until 1950’s. In 1860 370,000 slaves in Cuba.

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U.S. History - Have your textbooks today!

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  1. U.S. History - Have your textbooks today! We will try this again PG. 137 – Thanks – Happy Homecoming!

  2. Worldwide Ambitions

  3. Cuba a Spanish colony!

  4. U.S. Business Interests • Traded slaves until 1862 • Sugar Plantations 1860’s until 1950’s. • In 1860 370,000 slaves in Cuba. • 1860’s – 1870’s Cubans willing to fight for their freedom with at times the help of Americans.

  5. Cuba’s Struggle for Independence Jose Marti – Cuba’s George Washington. Killed in Battle May of 1895.

  6. General Valeriano Weyler – “The Butcher”

  7. Incidents to U.S. involvement. A letter written by De Lome’ was intercepted by Cuban rebels. Published February 9, 1898. Begins to turn public opinion. Enrique depuy De Lome’ Spanish Ambassador to U.S.

  8. The U.S.S. Maine on its way to Havanna Harbor Jan 1898

  9. Admiral Sigsbee aboard the main in the captain’s quarters.

  10. The U.S.S. Maine was an impressive battleship, at 319 feet long and displacing 6,682 tons it was the largest ship ever to enter the harbor at Havana.  Though only a second class battleship, the nine-year-old vessel was among the most impressive of the U.S. Naval fleet.  One of our country's first steel warships, the Maine was unique in the fleet due the fact that it had been totally designed and built by Americans.  It was the largest ship ever actually constructed in a U.S. Navy yard.  Painted the bright white of a peace-time US Naval Vessel, the impressive battleship boasted four of the huge 10-inch breech-loading rifles in additional to its smaller battery armaments. The Remnants of U.S.S. Maine

  11. How Spain is viewed by the revolutionaries. The Spanish had confined many Cubans to concentration camps. The press called them "death camps." Wild stories with screaming headlines -- Spanish Cannibalism, Inhuman Torture, Amazon Warriors Fight For Rebels -- flooded the newsstands. This is where Weyler got his name “The Butcher”.

  12. The term yellow journalism came from a popular New York World comic called "Hogan's Alley," which featured a yellow-dressed character named the "the yellow kid." Determined to compete with Pulitzer's World in every way, rival New York Journal owner William Randolph Hearst copied Pulitzer's sensationalist style and even hired "Hogan's Alley" artist R.F. Outcault away from the World. In response, Pulitzer commissioned another cartoonist to create a second yellow kid. Soon, the sensationalist press of the 1890s became a competition between the "yellow kids," and the journalistic style was coined "yellow journalism."

  13. One of the most oft-repeated stories connected with the Spanish-American War concerns Frederic Remington. The artist was engaged by William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal, to go to Cuba with noted writer Richard Harding Davis and provide illustrations to accompany a series of articles on the Revolution. Arriving in Havana in January of 1897, Remington soon became bored with seemingly peaceful Cuba and wired Hearst: "Everything is quiet. There is no trouble. There will be no war. I wish to return." The publisher's reply is alleged to have been: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

  14. The outbreak of the second Cuban Revolution in 1895 was seen as a major news story, and many papers, conservative, yellow and middle of the road, were soon scrambling to get reporters on the scene. Most of these "journalists" go no closer to the fighting than Key West or the bar of the Hotel Inglaterra in Havana. From these comfortable positions, they concocted stories of wild fantasy, based upon slanted press releases coming from the "Cuban Junta", the Revolution's propaganda agency in the US, or from their own fertile imaginations. Readers were treated to a steady diet of battles that never happened, Cuban victories which never occurred, exaggerated stories of Spanish brutality and such flights of fancy as repeated stories of beautiful, savage Cuban "Amazon" warriors, serving the Revolution as Cavalry and showing no mercy to the hated Spaniard. http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/cartoons/1898/980422nyhcws.html

  15. Sensationalism at its Best.

  16. Newspapers Declared: Remember the Maine, To Hell with Spain!

  17. U.S.S. Olympia

  18. Wreckage Of the Spanish Fleet

  19. First action – The Philippines

  20. The American ships came in as close as they thought the depth of the water would allow, first passing the Spanish position from west to east, and then countermarching east to west. Five passes were made along the two and a half mile course by the Asiatic Squadron at a speed of six to eight knots.

  21. The Army organizes? Backlogs of War material Enlistees often had to provide their own supplies.

  22. The Rough Riders – led by retired Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt leads The Charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills.

  23. The Big Risk – Cut off supply lines force U.S. to retreat.

  24. Treaty of Paris • U.S becomes an imperialistic nation. • The war was not a series of epic battles but the result launches the U.S.in to the ranks of world powers.

  25. THE END!!! Now lets review for the test!!!

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