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America's interest begins
President Franklin Pierce offers Spain $130 million for Cuba. Spain refuses. -
War for Independance
Began when the sugarmill owner Carlos Manuel de Cespedes and his followers claimed Cuba's independence from Spain. -
2nd War for Independence
The Little War was the second of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence, It followed the Ten Years' War of 1868-1878 and preceded the War of '95 -
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Yellow Journalism
The atrocities General Weyler committed in Cuba were massively hyped and senstation in the US newspapers, the engaged in a practice known as Yellow Journalism. -
General Weyler
Spanish General Weyler THE BUTCHER, came to Cuba. -
Caribbean
Admiral William T. Sampson effectivily sealed the Spanish fleet into the Santiago Harbor. United States prepared to invade the Island. -
U.S.S Maine
A United States Navy ship station Havana Harbor, the U.S.S Maine exploded at random. It is unknown whether Spanish enemy exploded it but, American press blamed it on them. -
De Lome Letter
The New York journal published a private letter written by Enrique Dupuy de Lome, who was the Spanish minister to the United States. It criticized President McKinley, calling him weak. -
Conflict over Treaty
There was a large conflict over the anexation of the philipines due to teh treaty of paris -
Battle of Manila Bay
Commodore George Dewey engaged and destroyed the Spanish Pacific Squadron -
Rough Riders
The Rough Riders were a volunteer calvary under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt. Most famous land battle of Spanish American War. -
San Juan Hill
The battle of San Juan Hill was a decisive battle of the Spanish-American War. It was the bloodiest and most famous battle of the War. It was also the location of the greatest victory for the Rough Riders as claimed by the press and its new commander, the future Vice-President and later President, Theodore Roosevelt -
Treaty of Paris
United States and Spain agreed o a treaty that Cuba would become independent, Spain would give Puerto Rico and the Pacific island of Guam to the United States, the United States would pay Spain $20 Million for the annexation of the Philippine Islands -
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War Begins in the Philippines
philippine american war was an armed conflict between the united states and the filipino revolutionary.
