1. IMPERIALISM OR REVENGE
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
IMPERIALISM OR REVENGE

2. Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida

3. By the end of 1897, more than 300,000 Cubans had relocated into Spanish guarded concentration camps. These camps became cesspools of hunger and disease where more than one hundred thousand died.

4. USS MAINE
The U.S. sends the USS Maine to Havana Harbor in January 1898 to protect American interests during the long-standing revolt of the Cubans against the Spanish government.
American popular opinion blamed Spain, and war followed within a few months.

5. USS MAINE EXPLODES
A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard.

6. Reasons for Spanish American War
1. Protection of American business interests in Cuba
2. American support of Cuban rebels to gain independence from Spain

7. 3. Sinking of the USS Maine
The Maine had been sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after a rebellion against Spanish rule broke out in Havana in January.
An official U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry ruled in March that the ship was blown up by a mine, without directly placing the blame on Spain.

8. 4. Yellow Journalism – Exaggerated news stories.
The newspapers falsely reported the sinking as an attack

9. Results of the Spanish American War
1. The U.S. defeats Spain
2. Cuba gains its independence
3. The U.S. gained possession of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
4. The U.S. emerged as a WORLD POWER

10. The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that was introduced on December 2, 1823, which said that further efforts by European governments to colonize land or interfere with states in the Americas would be viewed by the United States of America as acts of aggression requiring US intervention.

11. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
1. Asserted the U.S.’s right to interfere in economic matters of nations in the Americas
2. Claimed the United States’ right to exercise international police power

12. 3. Advocated Big Stick Diplomacy
“Walk softly, but carry a big stick”
Used this concept to get the Panama Canal built

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