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The Americans tried to buy Cuba from Spain and they refused without thinking about it -
Around this time the first war for independence was formed and its name was the war of ten years but it was to enlarge Spain "empire" and "help" Cuba to get its independence. -
When the cubans framed the spanish and destroyed the sugar canes we got mad thinking it was the spanish that did it and it was a good opportunity to be mad but it benefit the Cubans because America could get involved. -
Spain responded to the cubans 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. Here civilians could not give aid to rebels.An estimated 300,000 cubans filled these camps, where thousands died from hunger and disease. -
After some rebel successes in Cuba's second war of independence in 1897, U.S. President William McKinley offered to buy Cuba for $300 million. Rejection of the offer, and an explosion that sank the American battleship USS Maine in Havana harbor, led to the Spanish–American War. -
There was a private letter by Enrique Dupuy de Lome that was published in the New York Journal. A rebel had gotten a hold of that letter and gave it to newspapers. The letter had insulted the U.S. president. They quickly apologized and the minister resigned. -
A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard. -
On July 1, 1898, United States forces and Teddy Roosevelt's troops defeated the Spanish. This was important because led to the surrender Santiago. The Spanish were defeated. -
On July 25, 1898, The U.S. invaded Puerto Rico at Guanica.They said they were liberating the inhabitants from Spanish colonial rule.This is important because it became a U.S.territory. -
The treaty was a peace agreement btween Spain and the U.S.that ended Spanish-American War. It gave Cuba freedom from Spain and the U.S. gained the Philippines,Puerto Rico and Guam.