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U.S. attempt to purchase Cuba
Diplomats proposed that President Franklin Pierce to buy Cuba from Spain. Spain rejected our offer to buy Cuba. When the Cubans started to reble against spain there was a trust bonded between America and Cuba. -
Cuba's 1st war for Independence
Also known as the 10 year war. The U.S thought that we schould own cuba since it was not very far away from Florida. This is were Cubans rebelled against Spain between 1868 and 1878, American sympathies went out to the Cuban people. But we couldnt really help them because we lost so many lives in the Civil war that was going on around that time. The Cuban revolt against Spain was not successful. -
The Yellow Press began to shape American public opinion with respect to Cuba’s Civil War
To lure readers, Hearst’s New York Journal and Pulitzer’s New York World printed exaggerated accounts. Stories of poisoned wells and of children being thrown to the sharks. This sensational style of writing, which exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers, became known as yellow journalism. -
Jose Martí led Cuba’s Second War for Independence
José Martí, a Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York, organized Cuban resistance against Spain, using an active guerrilla campaign and deliberately destroying property, especially American-owned sugar mills and plantations. He was counting on the United States to intervene and help the rebels achieve a free Cuba. He was a hero in Cubas eyes. -
Valeriano Weyler was sent to Cuba by Spain
He was a Spanish General. Spanish sent Valeriano to restore order. he put 300,000 of the population in barbed wire concentration camps where civilians couldn't help rebels. Spain sent him because the cubans were creating uprisings. -
Publication of the De Lome letter
The De Lome Letter was written by Señor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme. He was the Spanish Ambassador (Spains voice) to the US. He was sending the letter to the Foreign Minister of Spain when it was intercepted by revolutionaries from Cuba and released to the Hearst Press. He had said terrible things about President McKinley such as that he was weak, he was a glory hog etc. which made Americans want war. -
Explosion of the USS Maine
A few days after the de Lôme Letter was published President McKinley ordered the U.S.S. Maine to Cuba where it would bring home dangered American citizens. It was also sent there to protect American property. The U.S.S. Maine blew up in the harbor of Havana Harbor, where over 260 out of 400 men were killed. It was unknown why it was exploded, but it was "claimed' that the Spanish had blown the ship up. -
U.S. Declairs War on Spain
When the Spanish ambassitor called president Mckinley names, and after the U.S.S Main was demolished, both the United States and Spain wanted war. 10 days later the US moved into the Philippines where they fought the first battle. U.S. declaired war in effort to free "prisoners" of Spain. -
U.S. Attack on Manila Bay
The American fleet in the Pacific traveled to the Philippines. Commodore George Dewey gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital. All of the Spanish ships were destroyed in hours. The Filipino rebels helped the US defeat the Spanish troops in Manila. Admiral William Samson destroyed the Spanish fleet because its the next destrcution in the Spanish control over Cuba. -
U.S. Invades Cuba
US forces landed in Cuba, 125,000 men had volunteered to fight, but only an army of 17,000 arrived in Cuba because they are the only ones who are ready and armed to fight. (We are not ready) They started the invasion by converging on the city Santiago. They had a volunteer cavalry squad called the Rough Riders, who were partly led by Theodore Roosevelt. -
Battle for Kettle/San Juan Hill
The first part of the battle occurred on Kettle Hill which featured an uphill charge by the Rough Riders and two African - American regiments (Ninth and Tenth Cavalries). The second part occurred on San Juan Hill. This is where Roosevelt and his units were but they played a very little role in the battle. -
Destruction of the Spanish fleet
Two days after the U.S. victory at San Juan Hill the Spanish Fleet tried to escape the American blockade. On the Cuban coast is where a naval battle followed the escape and the U.S. destroyed the Spanish Fleet. After that American Troops invaded Puerto Rico. -
Spanish Surrender to the Philippines
After their ships in Manila were destroyed, 11,000 US troops over the next two months joined the Filipino rebels in defeating the Spanish troops in August of 1898, when they surrendered. -
Armistice is signed between the US and Spain
The United States and Spain signed the armistice which ceased the fire, after the Spanish Fleet was destroyed and the United States invaed Puerto Rico. This document ended what Secretary of State John Hay called “a splendid little war”. This ended the 15 weeks of war. -
Naval Blockade of Cuba
The US congress passed a joint resolution that acknoleged Cuban Independance. The Spanish government rejected the U.S untimatum. The U.S set up a naval blockade and Admiral William T. Sampson effectively sealed up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty was between the United States and Spain who met in Paris. The treaty sent Cuba, the Islands of Guam, and Puerto Rico in the West Indies to the United States. The Philippines were also bought by the United States for $20,000,000. -
Capture of Puerto Rico
It was given to the US on December 10, 1898 under the terms of the treaty of Paris. U.S. wanted puerto rico before Spain, which we took with little trouble, bearly any soulders were there to defend it.
