Imperialism In Cuba, And Hawaii In The Nineteenth Century

In the nineteenth century, America pursued a policy of imperialism in the Philippines, Cuba, and Hawaii under the guise of protecting the world from the oppression of Spanish rule but it actually ruined their culture in the long run. This caused much controversy both in the political arena as well as among the citizens. Instead of letting the Philippines become a state of America they forcefully made them a territory for America, but was later annexed in June of 1898. With Cuba what happened was it was apart of the Spanish rule but the United States issued the Teller Amendment which stated, once Cuba freed itself from the Spanish rule would “leave the government and control of the Island to its people.” It was later on given back to the Spanish after the war. Before all of this though America imperialised Hawaii in the late 1800’s. The United States recognized Hawaii as its own nation and had sugar tariffs imposed on the sugar
When the war did break out, on May 1st, 1998, it lasted only a mere couple of hours but nearly 400 Spaniards were either injured or killed while not a single American was killed. Yes the Philippines had been fighting for independence from Spain from nearly two years but the amount of blood shed on their land will never be forgotten. Because of the imperialism the Philippines had to be sold to the Americans from the Spanish for 20 million. The money that was paid was money that could’ve gone to the America’s new territory, the Philippines, but instead it had to go to a basically forceful stolen country. Another reason why the American imperialism was bad for the natives was when they took over the Philippines after the begin war with the spanish they had a lot of deaths and injury because of the boiler explosion of the U.S. Missouri another reason why this was bad we took over there land and also toke