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The Spanish-American War: Causes, Battles, and Consequences

Learn about the Cuban Issue, yellow journalism, naval battles, and Treaty of Paris in the context of the Spanish-American War. Explore U.S. and Spanish perspectives and the impact on imperialism.

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The Spanish-American War: Causes, Battles, and Consequences

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  1. Chapter 18-2 The Spanish-American War

  2. Cuban Issue • Buy Cuba in 1854 (Spain Refused) • Jose Marti (Launched revolution) • Business supports government • American Public supports Cuba Libre

  3. Yellow Journalism • Spain tries to restore order in Cuba • Concentration camps • William Randolph Hearst & Joseph Pulitzer • Exaggerated accounts of camps • Yellow journalism—lure & enrage readers • “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”—W.R.Hearst

  4. Remember the Maine & War • Spanish minister insults McKinley • USS Maine explodes • Spain gave in to all US demands • War in the Philippines • Naval battle (Easy victory)

  5. Rough Riders • Cuba (Small army, poorly trained volunteers) • Rough Riders (Teddy Roosevelt) • San Juan Hill • Spanish fleet destroyed • Puerto Rico invaded

  6. Splendid Little War • Treaty of Paris (1898) • Guam, Puerto Rico to US • Bought Philippines • Justification of Imperialism • McKinley (Prayer) • Booker T. Washington • Samuel Gompers

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