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In 1854 diplomats recommended to president Franklin that the U.S. purchase Cuba from Spain. The Cuban revolted against Spain but it was not successful. After that, the Americans invested millions of dollars into sugarcane plantations. -
1898 is when the United States went to war to help Cuba win its independence from Spain. -
In 1895, yellow journalism sought to exploit the atrocities in Cuba to sell more magazines and newspapers. -
In 1895, Jose organized Cuban resistance against Spain. He used the activity called the Guerrilla campaign and deliberately destroyed the sugar mills that were owned by the US. he did this to help make Cubans want freedom and fight for it. -
In 1896, Spain responded to the Cuban revolt by sending General Valeriano Weyler to Cuba to restore order. Weyler tried to crush the rebellion by herding the entire rural population of central and western Cuba into barbed wire concentration camps. -
In February 1898, the newspaper was leaked and later got back to McKinley calling him "weak” and a” bidder for the admiration of the crowd” -
July 3, 1898, the harbor that was located in Santiago was blocked by ships. The naval battle ended due to the destruction of the Spanish fleet. -
On December 10, 1898, the Spanish sold the Philippines to the United States for $20 billion dollars, during the treaty of Paris. -
July 3, 1898, is when the Caribbean hostels began with a naval blockade in Cuba. Admiral William T. Sampson sealed up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santigo de Cuba. -
February 15, 1898, people believe that the Spanish blew up the ship but no one actually knows, and over 260 men were killed that day. -
On April 20, 1898, the United States declared war against Spain. One huge reason why we declared war on them was the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S Maine in Havana Harbor. -
On April 30, 1898, the American fleet in the Pacific steamed to the Philippines. The next morning commander George Dewey gave the command open fire on the Spanish fleet at Manila -
June 1898 is when the United States decided that they were going to try and overtake Cuba. Cubans demanded Spain end Cuban slavery and they did, Americans went over and decide that they would start putting Americans’ money into the sugar cane. -
July 1, 1898, Without the purchase of the San Juan Hill The US, would not be able to have figured out where to place the cannons to start the war on t Santiago -
On December 10, 1898, the United States and Spain meet in Paris to figure things out and they decided that they would free Cuba and would give the united states Puerto Rico as well as other places. -
The United States and Spain signed an armistice, a cease-fire agreement, on August 12, ending what Secretary of State John Hay called “ a splendid little war”. -
August 12, 1898, the United States and Spain signed what they called the treaty of Paris which means a cease-fire agreement to end all wars and figure things out without fighting.