The United States felt it was necessary to have immediate action to protect not only the Cuban people, but the U.S citizens and their properties on the land, as well as the economic prosperities it had to offer to the U.S as stated by Indiana Senator, Albert J.
Beveridge. The United States was not only entitled to invading Cuba for the protection and safety of its people but also to present to the nations that are being guarded or held down by an oppressing power that if they fight of their freedoms and their rights, they too would grow to be as prosperous as Cuba was. They would no longer be brought down or feel as if they have a chain tied to their ankle by their ruler as Cuba is portrayed (Miss Cuba Receives an Invitation). Hence why the Monroe Doctrine was popular because it was basically sending that message to Europe that it isn’t all that and that the U.S wasn’t and isn’t going to be the only region it loses its reign
over.
In 1897, 36 years before the Holocaust in Europe with the Jewish people, Spain was losing its reign over Cuba and to combat the warfare going on at the time on the countrysides they decided to place rural Cubans into ‘reconcentration’ camps, where they were supposed to receive what they needed or at least have somewhere decent to live but in a letter presented to officials in Washington by the Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee, he explained in detail the horrific conditions in which the Cubans were forced to live with, No clean water, air, low-quality food, and even worse, dead corpses everywhere. You couldn’t move anywhere without stepping on or over a dead body of a teenage children, mother, or even small children who needed their mother's attention. Of the 460 people who went in, 77% of those people were dead by the time the Consul-General wrote the letter. The American people didn’t see the letter nor were they aware of the fact that this was occurring but imagine if they did hear about the unspeakable acts that the Spanish were doing to the Cubans. These people were the ones that were suspected of bombing a ship, killing 258 people, and now they’re killing around 354 people that they were supposed to be keeping safe?
Given the sources and the information given, you can see as to why it can be assumed that the United States had all right to invade Cuba. Not only to protect its people from harm, but also to ensure the safety of both our and their countries, the economy and wellbeing. The Spanish-American war was fueled by outrage and terror, no one wants to live their lives fearing an attack on their people. The United States did all they could and much more to help ensure the safety of the Cuban people and to ensure that the American people living on the island were also well kept and secure.