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The Cuban conflict was injurious to U.S. investments in the island, which were estimated at $50 million, and almost ended U.S. trade with Cuban ports, normally valued at $100 million annually.
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News paper companies became competitive and started using large, attention grabbing headlines and exaggerated stories. Yellow journalism fueled the public passion for war. -
This stripped rebels of their ability to live off the land and camouflage themselves among civilians. By 1898, one third of Cuba's population had been forced into relocation camps.
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It was a note written by Senor Don Enrigue Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, to Don Jose Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lome's opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and President McKinley's diplomacy.
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The USS Maine exploded killing over 260 men. They found a submerged mine so they blamed the Spanish. -
Teddy resigned his respected post to fight in the war where he formed the rough riders who were not even real soldiers. He lead multiple successful charges against the Spanish. -
This was a major battle of the Spanish–American War fought between an American force under the command of William Rufus Shafter and Joseph Wheeler against a Spanish force led by Arsenio Linares y Pombo. -
It was a treaty signed by Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish–American War. Under it, Spain relinquished all claim of sovereignty over Cuba and also gave Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.