CHAPTER 23 SECTION 2

1. WAR WITH SPAIN CHAPTER 23 SECTION 2

2. AMERICANS LOOKED LONGINGLY AT CUBA THEY THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE A RIPE APPLE AND THEY WANTED IT IT WAS OWNED BY THE SPANISH EMPIRE IN 1868 THE CUBANS REBELLED AGST SPANISH RULE TENSION IN CUBA

3. THE SPANISH MANAGED TO CRUSH THE REVOLT AFTER 10 YRS JOSE MARTI WORKED DAY AND NIGHT FOR CUBAN INDEPENDENCE HE TOLD SYMPATHETIC AMERICANS ABOUT THE CUBAN STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM CUBA LIBRE- FREE CUBA

4. REBELS STARTED BURNING SUGAR PLANTATIONS THEY KILLED WORKERS, BLEW UP PASSENGER TRAINS SPAIN SENT VALERIANO WEYLER AS A NEW GOVERNOR HE HAD CREUL POLICIES- RECONCENTRATION- MOVE HALF A MILLION CUBANS TO DETENTION CAMPS

5. 100000 CUBANS DIED FROM STARVATION IN THE CAMPS THIS CAUSED AMERICAN OPINION TO SPLIT PPL WATCHED THE REVOLT WITH GROWING CONCERN THE US HAD ECONOMIC LINKS TO CUBA

6. BUS LEADERS OPPOSED INVOLVEMENT SOME AMERICANS SYMP WITH THE CUBAN DESIRE FOR FREEDOM THE PRESS WHIPPED UP AM SYMP FOR CUBA PULITZER AND HEARST COMPETED TO SPREAD GRISLY STORIES

7. THEY TALKED ABOUT SPANISH ATROCITIES- WARTIME ACTS OF CREULTY THEY USED YELLOW JOURNALISM- THEY PRINTED SENSATIONAL STORIES TO RILE UP THE PUBLIC “ YOU SUPPLY THE PICS, I’LL SUPPLY THE WAR”

8. PRES CLEVELAND WANTED TO AVOID WAR HE CALLED WAR FEVER INSANE MCKINLEY ALSO WANTED TO KEEP COUNTRY NEUTRAL

9. FIGHTING BROKE OUT IN HAVANA- AND MCKINLEY SENT THE MAINE TO PROTECT AMERICAN CITIZENS ON FEB 15, THE MAINE SUDDENLY EXPLODED TH EXPLOSION KILLED 260 PPL THE MEDIA MADE IT SEEM LIKE IT WAS THE SPANISH’S FAULT REMEMBER THE MAINE

10. IT WAS ACTUALLY AN INTERNAL PROBLEM IT LED TO WAR FEVER AND CONGRESS GAVE IN TO PRESSURE AND DECLARED WAR ON SPAIN THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR LASTED ONLY FOUR MONTHS- IT WS FOUGHT IN THE CARIBBEAN, THE SW AND THE PHILIPPPINES

11. ROOSE WANTED TO USE THE WAR TO GET THE PHILLIPINES HE SENT MESSAGES TO ATTACK THE PHILS THEY DESTROYED THE SPANISH SHIPS INA SURPRISE ATTACK AM GROUND TROOPS LANDED IN MANILA- AND WITH THE HELP OF FILIPINO REBELS LIKE AGUINALDO- THEY TOOK OVER THE COUNTRY VICTORY IN THE PHILIPPINES

12. AM TROOPS ALSO LANDED IN CUBA ROOSE LED THE ROUGH RIDERS- A MIXED GROUP OF PPL EAGER TO FIGHT THE SPANISH THEY JOINED THE REG TROOPS OF ROOSE- AND THE AMERICANS GAINED VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF SAN JUAN HILL WAR IN CUBA

13. THEN THEY DESTROYED THE SPANISH FLEET IN CUBA- SPAIN SURRENDERED SPAIN GRANTED CUBA ITS FREEDOM SPAIN GAVE THE US PUERTO RICO AND GUAM SPAIN SOLD THE PHILLIPPINES FOR 20 MILLION

14. CONGRESS APPROVED THE TREATY AMERICANS DID NOT BELIEVE CUBA WAS READY FOR INDEPENDENCE PLATT- THE AMDNT ALLOWED THE US TO INTERVENE IN CUBA AND GAVE THE US CONTROL OVER THE NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY

15. THE AMDNT MADE CUBA A PROTECTORATE- A NATION WHOSE INDEPENDENCE IS LIMITED BYA MORE POWERFUL NATION UNDER THE FORAKER ACT- PUERTO RICO HAD A LIMITED SAY IN ITS AFFAIRS PR MADE CITIZEN OF US- BUT PR WANTED TO BE FREE OF FOREIGN RULE

16. FLIP NATIONALISTS FOUGHT FOR INDEP – WHEN US TOOK LAND- THEY FELT BETRAYED LED BY AGUINALDO- THEY REVOLTED THEY FOUGHT HARD BUT LOST US SET UP GOVT THERE IN 1902 NOT UNTIL 1946 COULD THEY GOVERN THEMSELVES REVOLT IN THE PHILIPPINES