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- Diplomat's recommend to buy cuba from Spain
- 90 miles from USA
- Large sugar cane plantations
- Another port for navy
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What created American interest in Cuba were the lands to have sugar plantations.
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Yellow Journalism and the Rise of American Anger: 1895-1897
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The sinking of the USS Maine lead up to the Spanish-American War.
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The New York Journal published a private letter that enrique Dupuy de Lome wrote to William McKindley.
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Yellow Journalism made it sound way wrost than it was.
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McKinley approves war with Spain
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William Mckinley went to congress to declare war on spain.
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Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila in a surprise attack in which not a single American was killed. The Spanish ships were old and rotting, and were defeated easily by the newer American steel ships.
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The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Spanish- American War. According to the Treaty, Cuba went free, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines were ceded to the US, and the US agreed to pay Spain an indemnity of $20 million.
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Amendment to the Cuban constitution by which the US was allowed certain concessions, including the right to indefinitely maintain Guantanamo naval base in Cuba.
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A series of Supreme Court cases in 1901, in which the Court ruled that the Constitution and American laws did not all necessarily apply to colonies. Instead, Congress would decide which laws applied where, allowing the US to keep citizenship out of the grasp of the inhabitants of its new territories.
