A. Spanish Misrule in Cuba
1. Cuban Colony wants independence
Spain ruled with a heavy hand. General
Weyler put 2. 200,000 Cubans into
camps. 1/8th of population starved to
death
B. “Yellow Journalism”
1. uses bias reporting
to sell newspapers & inflame Americans
Joseph Pulitzer
Hearst to Frederick Remington:
You furnish the pictures,
and I’ll furnish the war!
William Randolph Hearst
C.Remember the Maine
and to Hell with Spain!
1. U.S. warship blew up in Cuban harbor – 266
Am. sailors died
D. The Spanish-American War
(1898):
“That Splendid Little War”
Theodore Roosevelt
Assistant Secretary of the
Navy in the McKinley
administration
Resigned his position to fight
in Cuba.
1.The
“Rough Riders”
captured San
Juan Hill
2. 400 Americans died from the fighting;
4,000 died from diseases such as yellow
fever and malaria
A. U.S. attacked Spanish colonypart of The Spanish-American War
(1898)
B. Dewey Captures Manila!
C. Emilio Aguinaldo
1. Leader
Uprising.
of the Filipino
2. U.S. colony until July
4, 1946
Our “Sphere of Influence”
III. The Treaty of Paris: 1898
A Terms
1. Spain gave up Cuba, Puerto Rico and the
island of Guam.
2.The U.S. paid Spain
$20 mil. for the
Philippines.
The U.S. becomes
an imperial power!
Cuban Independence?
B. Platt Amendment (1903)
Senator
Orville Platt
1. Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign
powers.
2. The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs
3. Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for naval
and coaling station.
C. The American Anti-Imperialist
League
Mark Twain, Andrew
Carnegie, and William
Jennings Bryan among
the leaders.
1. Against annexation
of Philippines and all
acts of imperialism.
Puerto Rico: 1898
A. 1917 – Jones Act
1. Gave territorial status to PR
2. Granted U.S. citizenship
PRs will hold convention
to decide whether they
want to apply for statehood
soon.