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Section 2 The Spanish-American War Chapter 10 Section 2 The Spanish-American War

Causes #1 American Business Owners Sugar mills and plantations

Causes #2 Jose Marti Organized Cuban resistance Guerilla warfare, destruction of property (including American owned) Died fighting in 1895

Causes #3 Valeriano Weyler Spanish general Placed rural populations in concentration camps (300,000)

Causes #4 Yellow Journalism William Randolph Hearst v. Joseph Pulitzer Their newspapers used a sensational style of writing , which exaggerated the news to lure and enrage readers “you furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”

Causes #5 De Lome letter President McKinley gets Spain to recall General Weyler and modify concentration camps however, De Lome, Spanish minister to the U.S., criticized McKinley as “weak”

Causes #6 U.S.S. Maine McKinley orders the U.S.S. Maine to Cuba to protect American citizens and property February 15, 1898, the ship blows up in Havana harbor 260 die Newspapers claim Spanish responsible

Consequences: Cuba Naval blockade 125,000 Americans volunteer Treaty of Paris frees Cuba from Spanish possession

Consequences: Puerto Rico American troops invade Puerto Rico after Cuba Treaty of Paris turns Puerto Rico over to U.S.

Consequences: Guam Treaty of Paris hands over the island of Guam to U.S.

Consequences: Philippines Commodore George Dewey leads American invasion Filipino rebels led by Emilio Aguinaldo, join Americans August 1898 Spanish surrender