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

2. Causes #1 American Business Owners
Sugar mills and plantations

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

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

5. 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”

6. 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”

7. 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

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

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

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

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