How American Became A World Power

By bryce2234
  • USS Maine

    USS Maine

    USS Maine was pulled into Havana Harbor to use Roosevelt's "Big Stick Policy"

  • USS Maine Explodes

    USS Maine Explodes mysteriously by a Mysterious force, tensions were high between spanish and american's so they were on the brink of war

  • Yellow Journalism

    News papers and such spreading untrue facts about the spanish blowing up the maine trying to get the US to go to war with the spanish.
  • Spanish American War Starts

    Spanish American War Starts

    Yellow Journalism encourages war with the spanish so people wanted war, Hence forth >The Spanish American War

  • Spanish American War Ends

    The war lasted 3 Month's, 2 Week's, and 4 day's. It was fought mainly in Cuba and Puerto Rico as well as Philippines and Guam.
  • Territorial Change

    Territorial Change

    Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States for the sum of $20 million.
  • Treaty Of Paris

    Treaty Of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris signaled the end of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Pacific Islands, and it marked the beginning of the age of the United States as a world power.