1. The Spanish - American War (pg. 589 – 596)
How did the activities of the US in Latin America set the stage for the war with Spain?
US Intervention in the Western Hemisphere
Chile (1891)
Brazil (1893)
Venezuela (1895)

2. What were the events leading up to and following the Spanish-American War?
Causes of War:
1.) Cuban Rebellion
Spanish General Valeriano Weyler
Concentration Camps
“The Butcher”

3. Pulitzer Hearst -2.)Yellow Journalism Sensationalized News Stories
New York World Joseph Pulitzer
NewYorkJournal William Randolph Hearst
Hearst

4. Dupuy De Lome William McKinley
-3.) Jingoism –
National Pride with an Aggressive Foreign
Policy
-4.) De Lome Letter
Insulting letter written about Pres. McKinley by De Lome
William McKinley

5. USS Maine

6. -5.) Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
“Remember the Maine”

7. Declaration of War Congress declared war in April 1898
Teller Amendment – US was fighting to free the Cubans and will not seek to acquire Cuba following the defeat of Spain
War was fought in two “theaters”
The Philippines
Cuba

8. The Spanish American War (1898)
Two Theaters
The Philippines
Theodore Roosevelt – Ass’t Secretary of the Navy
Dispatched Adm. George Dewey (May 1)
Dewey and the US Fleet destroyed the Spanish Fleet at Manila Bay in seven hours

9. Cuba (June 1898)
Leonard Wood and TR led the Rough
Riders at San Juan Hill, Cuba
US Fleet destroyed the Spanish Fleet at Santiago
Casualties – 5000/500

10. Secretary of State John Hay called it “A Splendid Little War”
Only lasted a few months
Limited Casualties
Gained National Pride
Earned International Respect
Favorable Peace Treaty

11. Treaty of Paris US Intervention in Cuban Affairs
Cuban Independence
Puerto Rico and Guam to US
US purchased the Philippines for $20,000,000
The Platt Amendment (US & Cuba)
US Intervention in Cuban Affairs
No treaties with other countries without US consent
US use of Guantanamo Bay

12. Why did the US seek to gain influence in the Pacific?
To Protect American Interests (Trade)
Annexation of Hawaii (July 1898)
Sanford Dole removed Queen
Liliuokalani from power
US annexed Hawaii during the war – Port
Samoa (1899)
China - Open Door Policy (1899)

13. Queen Liliuokalani
Hawaii (1898)
William McKinley
Sanford Dole

14. Boxer Rebellion (1900)