Spanish-American War (1898)

Causes: How did each of the following help to cause the outbreak of the Spanish-American War?



1. American business owners-
the business owners bought stock in places like cuba for the sugar fields. so when their stock was in trouble from powers they could change they wentafter it. ( outraged when the cuban people burned thier proptery so they had the government tell the cubans what to do.)

2. José Martí-
He organized a cuban resistance against spain. He dilibratly attacked proptery, mostly American sugar plantations and mills. By doing this American business men were upset and called on the government to make it stop, because thwe gov was very involved with thte business men.

3. Valeriano Weyler-
A spanish general who was sent to cuba to "restore order."He tried to crush the rebillon by throwing people from all over Cuba in to camps lined with barbed wire. (concentration camps)

4. Yellow journalism-
When the news is played up to sell newspapers. This made the news intrest people more so when the USS Maine was destroyed they were able to bend it in the governments favor by having the apanish do it.

5. De Lôme letter-
A letter written by the Spanish minister to the US, it was stolen from a post office and leaked to a newspaper. The letter smashed President Mckinley calling him weak and a coward.

6. U.S.S. Maine-
A boat that exploded in Havana harobor Cuba. The cause was "unknown" though today we know it was from faluty airflow in the room holding the gun poweder. However the American government blamed this on the spanish which allowed them to go to war with them. The American secretly wanted Cuba, they were drooling over it, so many people think that the explosion was a conspearseare.



Effects: What happened to each of the following territories as a result of the Spanish-American War?

7. Cuba-
Rich with sugar, American business men had stock over there so they had an influence over the government.

8. Puerto Rico-
It gave the US a good navy base and allowed them to have a better presense near south america.


9. Guam-
it provided the Us a bumper and a presence near china.


10. Philippine Islands-
Spain thought that invade Cuba first but they were wrong, american surprised Spain and went to the Philippines first. The philippines was captured and the people who lived there supported America, so they joined forces.