Now we can be like European countries!! · for war (yellow journalism) –Joseph Pulitzer...
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Now we can be like European countries!!
Imperialism: a period of time when strong countries take over weak countries
• Some Americans want colonies - Imperialism
• There is no place to expand in America
• We should take island colonies for Navy refueling and repairs
• Eventually, America gets a military base in Hawaii
• We trade in the Caribbean
• The United States trades with Cuba
• Spain controls Cuba
• Cuba wants independence from Spain
• America promises to support Cuba’s independence in order to protect our business
• 1898- President McKinley is hoping to avoid war
• Extreme journalists call for war (yellow journalism)
– Joseph Pulitzer
– William Randolph Hearst
• McKinley sends the USS Maine- a ship- to Cuba
• On Feb 15, 1898- the USS Maine blew up!
• No one knows what caused the explosion
• Yellow Journalists blamed Spain
• They called for war!
• On April 20, 1898 the US declared war on Spain
• War lasts from April to August 1898
• Only 460 Americans die in battle
• 5,200 Americans die of disease
• Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt has the Navy battle Spanish ships in the Philippines and destroy Spanish fleet in the Pacific
• Roosevelt volunteers as a Rough Rider
• The Rough Riders battle Spain in Puerto Rico
• Theodore Roosevelt becomes a national hero.
• The US Army defeats Spain at the Battle of San Juan Hill in Puerto Rico
• The United States wins the war in less than 5 months
• Cuba gains their independence
• United States becomes a world power
• Territories (US controls all 3): – Puerto Rico
– Guam
– The Philippines
• After the Spanish American War, America was a world power
• We held territories in Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam
• After McKinley is shot in 1901, Roosevelt becomes president