How Did The Spanish American War

Although the Spanish American war endured around ten weeks and not as many lives were lost, it was a big part of the beginning of the United States. During the Spanish American war, there were a variety of disasters as well as gossip and fear around the people that lived during that period of time an example was the Maine battleship. The Spanish American war of 1898 was a huge contribution of the Cuban Insurrectos behavior which led the rising of the barbed-wire concentration camps, as well as the help McKinley gave to the fear business people had of the Insurrectos and how yellow journalism played a significant role during the war.
The reason that the unites states got involved into the war was because Spain and the united states disliked
This revolt continued for at least 10 years, until 1878, when Spain promised reforms. The royal officials in this war soon finished on implementing those promises and the Cubans dream of getting independence just grew stronger. So, although the United states did not openly fight Spain in 1868 it did nothing to prevent Cuba patriots from coming to the united states and recruit American soldiers and raised money to buy guns, ammunition, and boats to return to Cuba. Several of these collective expeditions established sail from Florida to fight against the Spanish army in Cuba. Sadly, these expeditions were not successful and all that ended happening was that most of the American who went to fight for Cuban independence were capture and hanged by the Spanish people. Around the year 1895 when the insurgent forces again rose against the Spaniards, the American’s had invested around $50 million dollars which is twice than in annual trade into sugar and tobacco. The only thing that the revolution had brought into place was that it just threatened American investments and reduced trade but the American sympathies were mainly with the
What they did was burn crops of sugar cane and attacked passenger trains that were worth around 50 million dollars. All that money was an investment of the American companies and this huge investment in the Cuban sugar industry was destroyed by the Cuban insurrectos that it got the Spanish so mad and furious that later they had no sympathy for the Cuban Insurrectos and since all this rebellious things were happening the Spanish people decided to take a hold of this and create concentration camps. The Spanish eventually sent more than 200,000 soldiers to cuba to put down the 1895 rebellion and retain control of the island. At first, the soldiers were led by Gen Arsenio Martinez de Campos. But sadly, he failed and they decided to put Valeriano Weyler a general with a reputation of using hard methods. All of this was leading into a huge and bad bloody sight. The only way that Weylor thought it would be best to contain the rebellion was only by rounding up civilians and putting them in small areas where they were guarded by Spanish soldiers. This campaign was called Subjugation or Death as many of the insurrectos would called it. It had around an estimation of 400,000 Cubans, they were mostly woman and children, in these camps there was no adequate food, clothing, sanitation, or even medical care