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U.S Attempts To Purchase Cuba
The United States had long held an interest in Cuba, which lies only 90 miles south of Florida. In 1854, diplomats recommended to President Franklin Pierce that the United States buy Cuba from Spain. The Spanish responded by saying that they would rather see Cuba sunk in the ocean. But American interest in Cuba continued. When the Cubans rebelled against Spain between. 1868 and 1878, American sympathies went out to the Cuban people. In the 1850's slavery is huge in America. -
Cuba's First War of Independence
The Ten Years War in Cuba begins, launching the first phase of the Cuban war for independence from Spain. Cuba rebelled against, Spain, but they didn't succed. Later they eventus got spain to abloish slavery and after that the american capalists began investing millions of dollars in sugarcaen plantations in Cuba Land. It was important because the US was always intrested in Cuba and this was one first step for us to gain Cuba's attention. -
U.s Attack on Manilla Bay:
The United States attacked the Philippines Instead of what the Spanish thought was going to be on Cuba. This attack was the engagement to the Spanish American War. The most decisive naval history. We are fighting Spain to free the poor suffering people of Cuba -
Jose Martí Led Cuba's Second War For Independence
Anti-Spanish sentiment in Cuba soon erupted into a second war for independence. The Cuban political activist José Martí dedicated his life to achieving independence for Cuba -
Valeriano Weyler was sent to Cuba by Spain
In 1896, Spain responded to the Cuban revolt by sending General Valeriano Weyler to Cuba to restore order. Weyler tried to crush the rebellion by herding the entire rural population of central and western Cuba into barbed wire concentration camps. Here civilians could not give aid to rebels. An estimated 300,000 Cubans filled these camps, where thousands died from hunger and disease. -
Destruction of the Spanish Fleet
George Dewey gave the command to open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila, the Philippine capital. Within hours, Dewey’s men had destroyed every Spanish ship there. Dewey’s victory allowed U.S. troops to land in the Philippines. -
The yellow press begun to skope american public opinion with respect to Cuba’s Civil War
Weyler’s actions fueled a war over newspaper circulation that had developed between the American newspaper tycoons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. To lure readers, Hearst’s New York Journal and Pulitzer’s New York World printed exaggerated accounts—by reporters such as James Creelman—of “Butcher” Weyler’s brutality. Stories of poisoned wells and of children being thrown to the sharks deepened American sympathy for the rebels -
Publication of the deLone Letter
In February 1898, however, the New York Journal published a private letter written by Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish minister to the United States. the Spanish ambassador to the United States, is forced to resign after the De Lôme Letter is published in the New York Journal. This document, a private letter written to friend in Cuba, characterizes U.S. President McKinley as "weak" and a "would-be politician" who catered to the most jingoistic elements of the Republican Party and public. The A -
Explosion of the USS Maine
Only a few days after the publication of the de Lôme letter, American resentment toward Spain turned to outrage. Early in 1898, President McKinley had ordered the U.S.S. Maine to Cuba to bring home American citizens in danger from the fighting and to protect American property. On February 15, 1898, the ship blew up in the harbor of Havana. More than 260 men were killed. -
U.S Forces Invade Cuba
The army of 17,000 included four African-American regiments of the regular army and the Rough Riders. The most famous land battle in Cuba took place near Santiago on July 1. The first part of the battle, on nearby Kettle Hill, featured a dramatic uphill charge by the Rough Riders and two African-American regiments, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries. Their victory cleared the way for an infantry attack on the strategically important San Juan Hill. -
Armistice is signed between the Us. and Spain
The United States and Spain signed an armistice ending a “splendid little war.” Battles in the war had lasted around 15 weeks. -
U.S declares war on Spain
The United States had long held an interest in Cuba, which lies only 90 miles south of Florida. In 1854, diplomats recommended to President Franklin Pierce that the United States buy Cuba from Spain. The Spanish responded by saying that they would rather see Cuba sunk in the ocean. But American interest in Cuba continued. When the Cubans rebelled against Spain between 1868 and 1878, American sympathies went out to the Cuban people. -
Spanish surrender the Philippines:
Dewey had the support of the Filipinos who, like the Cubans, also wanted freedom from Spain. Over the next two months, 11,000 Americans joined forces with Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo. In August, Spanish troops in Manila surrendered to the United States. -
Battle for kettle/san Juan Hill
The first part of the battle, on nearby Kettle Hill, featured a dramatic uphill charge by the Rough Riders and two African-American regiments, the Ninth and Tenth Cavalries. Their victory cleared the way for an infantry attack on the strategically important San Juan Hill. Although Roosevelt and his units played only a minor role in the second victory, U.S. newspapers declared him the hero of San Juan Hill. -
Naval Blockade of Cuba
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Capture orfPuerto Rico
American troops invaded Puerto Rico on July 25. Representatives of Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris on December 10, 1898, which established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States. -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris of 1898 was an agreement made in 1898 that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire, especially Cuba, and ceding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. The cession of the Philippines involved a payment of $20 million from the United States to Spain.
