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President Franklin Pierce offers Spain $130 million for Cuba. The Spanish claim that they would rather see it sunk into the ocean then sell it to the US.
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This was the first of three wars the Cubans fought to gain their independance. It last ten years. It was largly unsuccesful.
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Jose Martí was a journalist and poet in Cuba. He rouse support aand destroy property in Cuba. Mostly American in order to stir up outrage and support. The support was split. People took up his cry of Cuba LIbre, for its similiaries with Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death.
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In response to the Cuban revolt the Spanish sent this General to Cuba to restore order. He herded the entire rural population of western and central Cuba into concentration camps. Civilians could no longer give aid to rebels. About 300,000 were sent there and thousands died from hunger and disease.
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The journalist would exaturate what was happening in Cuba in order to better sell their papers. They did this to also enrage and invicourate their readers.
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The Spanish Minister to the US wrote a letter insulting our president at the time. A cuban rebel intersepted it and leaked it to an American paper. It fueled anti-Spain feelings in America.
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The presidant sent the USS Maine to retrieve US citizens in Cuba to protect them from the fighting. It blew up in the harbor. At least 260 men were killed. No one was sure what happened until a newspaper claimed that it was the Spanish.
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After the tension in the US rose the presidant sent troops to Cuba. He hoped that he could help the Cubans and apease Americans.
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The US set up the blockade around Cuba and the northern shores of Hati & the Domican Republic. This led to an official declaration of war.
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The US declares war on Spain after the sinking of our ship. Some Americans were already in support of helping Cuba gain its independance. We wound up freeing several islands from the Spanish.
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This was the first official attack of the war. Commodore George Dewey’s Asiatic Squadron defeated the Spanish naval force defending the Philippines. The US had the support of the locals who like the Cubans wished to be free of the Spanish.
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This was part of the first fight at Manila Bay. It was the first major battle.
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This led to the annexation of Puerto Rico. It was settled after the Treaty of Paris. The U.S. officially became an empire.
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The Philippines had a three way war, in a way. The Americans, the spanish, and the rebels. Eventually the Americans won out.
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Roosevelt led his Rough Riders and two other groups, the Ninth and the Tenth in a charge up the hill. They played a minor role in gaining it but Roosevelt was dubbed a hero. The hill was a strategicly important part of the war.
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The brief and one-sided Spanish-American War comes to an end when Spain formally agrees to a peace protocol on U.S. terms: the cession of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Manila in the Philippines to the United States pending a final peace treaty.
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This treaty was signed in France to end the Spanish American War. The Spanish had to relinquish several of their overseas holdings. The Philippine, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. The Philippines were bought for $20 million, and Cuba became a U.S. protectorate.
