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they were trying to build an empire and in doing that they never was able to purchase cuba -
the start of the war
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The Cuban's went to war with Spain for independence but last because they didn't have the weaponry like the Spanish. -
Weyler tried to crush the rebellion by herding the entire
rural population of central and western Cuba into barbed-wire concentration camps -
Hearst and Pulitzer fanned war fever. When Hearst sent the gifted artist Frederic Remington to Cuba to draw sketches of reporters’ stories, Remington informed the publisher that a war between the United States and Spain seemed very unlikely. -
They really have good leader in the first war but when he came to there aid they started to gain some ground. -
The letter was a message to declare war with Spain -
Spain blew up the U.S.S Maine with an under water bomb that either killed or wounded the sailors. -
The U.S navy blocked the Spanish ships in manila bay and open fire on the ships -
After the explosion of the U.S.S Maine congress had it and declared war with Spain. -
After the US navy blocked in the Spanish they continued to finish the fleet off and one of the ships tried to get away but the Spanish lost. -
. Although Roosevelt and his units played only a minor role in the second victory, U.S. newspapers declared him the hero of San Juan Hill. -
Despite these handicaps, American forces landed in Cuba in
June 1898 and began to converge on the port city of Santiago. The army of 17,000 included four African-American regiments of the regular army and the Rough Riders, a volunteer cavalry under the command of Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt. -
The Spanish got destroyed in manila bay -
The Spanish surrendered to the us and started to leave Cuba -
After the Spanish surrendered to the us for Cuba they just gave up and surrendered to the us because they knew they wouldn't win so they gave up the Philippines -
The Spanish sign the treaty of Paris that meant they would leave the Cuban's alone -
With the loss of the Cuban war the Spanish also gave up Puerto Rico to the US