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Events that created American interest in Cuba
- Diplomat's recommend to buy cuba from Spain
- 90 miles from USA
- Large sugar cane plantations
- Another port for navy
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Sugar Plantations In cuba
What created American interest in Cuba were the lands to have sugar plantations. -
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The Spanish-American War
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Yellow Journalism
Yellow Journalism and the Rise of American Anger: 1895-1897 -
USS Maine
The sinking of the USS Maine lead up to the Spanish-American War. -
The De Lome Letter
The New York Journal published a private letter that enrique Dupuy de Lome wrote to William McKindley. -
Weyler's Concentration Camps
Yellow Journalism made it sound way wrost than it was. -
William McKinley
McKinley approves war with Spain -
Teller Amendment
William Mckinley went to congress to declare war on spain. -
Battle of Manila
Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila in a surprise attack in which not a single American was killed. The Spanish ships were old and rotting, and were defeated easily by the newer American steel ships. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish- American War. According to the Treaty, Cuba went free, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines were ceded to the US, and the US agreed to pay Spain an indemnity of $20 million. -
Platt Amendment
Amendment to the Cuban constitution by which the US was allowed certain concessions, including the right to indefinitely maintain Guantanamo naval base in Cuba. -
Insular Cases
A series of Supreme Court cases in 1901, in which the Court ruled that the Constitution and American laws did not all necessarily apply to colonies. Instead, Congress would decide which laws applied where, allowing the US to keep citizenship out of the grasp of the inhabitants of its new territories.
