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Cubans launched a series of revolts against Spanish
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Jose Marti leader exiled to america - inspired Cuban imdependence
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Marti founded the Cuban Revolutionary party
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Cubans revolted against the spanish - Marti was killed in battle
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Americans felt bad for the Cubans and Americans got info from newspapers (NY journal , NY world) - wrote crazy stories called yellow journalism
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Hearst (newspaper owner) sends someone to Cuba to create pictures of how bad the Cubans were being treated
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Journal (newspaper) publishes a letter from spains minister that calls US president McKinley weak
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US send battleship USS Maine to Havana, Cuba to protect US lives - the ship blows up and soliders die.
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Spain refuses to make Cuba independent start of spanish american war
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US opend fire on th spanish fleet in the Phillippines battle of manila bay/ US won
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Spanish forces surrender in the Phillipines
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Battle of San Juan Hill - Buffalo soliders (black people). Rough Riders beat Spanish
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US navy sank the Spanish fleet off the coast of Cuba. Spanish troops surrender. Cuba: independent. Puerto Rico: US buys Phillipines for 20million
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Flipinos against annexation created the anti-imperialist league
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bad food supply , supplies left over the civil war , wool uniforms (summer weather) , volunteers for war
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Pro: US stronger, more land, place to re-fuel boats
Cons: distance, immigrants, violence -
Once Cuba is free from Spain the US has to leave
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Annexation of the Phillipines was approved.
Fighting erupts between Americas and Filipinos -
Fighting ends between US and Filipinos
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Filipinos get their right to vote and control their government
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US granted full independence to the Phillipines
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Spain lost all of its colonies except for Cuba and the Phillipines
