1. Good Afternoon!! 1.NVC 2.HOT ROC: Spanish-American War 3.Causes of the Spanish-American War Essential Question: Why did the United States go to war against Spain in 1898? Homework: Work on Muckraker Project

2. HOT ROC: Spanish-American War What were the outcomes of the Spanish- American War for the United States? Based on your understanding of foreign policy, what are some possible reasons for the US becoming involved in a war with Spain?

3. Spanish-American War http://video.pbs.org/video/2365053190/ – Based on this video, why did the United States go to war with Spain in 1898? – A US battleship was bombed! USS Maine US+, S, C C-blame the Americans, blast occurred inside S-don’t know the cause, but Spain blamed US  unprovoked, there to protect, role of newspaper – Needed to gain empire to become a great nation US-, C+ – Helping the Cubans gain liberty from Spain, saw Cubans as like us US+, S- (no mention of concentration camps), C- – Economic interests (sugar plantations) S+, C+ – Peer Pressure, public bullying US – Spanish talking smack, weak and low US, C- – Cubans were misbehaving S

4. Foreign Policy Spectrum Isolationism/Neutrality Collective Security Imperialism Diplomacy

5. War Headlines “DESTRUCTION OF THE WAR SHIP MAINE WAS THE WORK OF AN ENEMY! NAVAL OFFICERS THINK THE MAINE WAS DESTROYED BY A SPANISH MINE.” “MAINE’S HULL WILL DECIDE. Divers Will Inspect the Ship’s Hull to Find Out Whether the Explosion Was from the Outside or Inside” – What does each headline imply? – How might a reader respond differently to each headline? – which would you want to read first? – Why might different newspapers choose to present the same event differently?

6. Yellow Journalism  Sensational news stories that often exaggerated the facts  Part of a “newspaper war” going on in the late 1800s

7. What really sunk the Maine? “Many ships, including the Maine, had coal bunkers located next to magazines that stored ammunition, gun shells, and gunpowder. Only a bulkhead separated the bunkers from the magazines. If the coal, by spontaneous combustion, overheated, the magazines were at risk of exploding. An investigative board on January 27, 1898, warned the Secretary of the Navy about spontaneous coal fires that could detonate nearby magazines. A book by Lewis Gould in 1982 concluded that inadequate ventilation within the Maine led to a fire in the coal bunkers that set off nearby gunpowder. John L. Offner did his doctoral dissertation on the Spanish-American War. He noted in 1992 that from 1895 to 1898, 13 other American ships had fires associated with spontaneous combustion in coal bunkers.”—Library of Congress Report