The simple explanation as to the cause of the Spanish-American war is that it was due to the way the Spanish were treating the Cuban people. But things are rarely that simple and the war between Spain and America is no exception. Leading up to the war American’s began to feel that we did not have enough room to grow and American journalists fed the desire for foreign adventure by romanticizing it‚ much the way the frontier had been romanticized. Huge Naval ships were built and Darwinism convinced
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what it was like in the Philippines! Before the Spanish-American war‚ the Philippines were a territory of Spain‚ along with some other countries like Cuba and Puerto Rico. Spain mistreated the people of these territories. They moved them into camps‚ that had shelters with no roofs. If they didn’t get there in time‚ they were executed. The United States stepped in and went to war with Spain for the independance of these territories. When we won the war‚ we got control of these
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American Imperialism The idea of American imperialist is a derivative of ideal of Marxism and the U.S. Foreign policy after the Spanish-American War. American has been considered the police of the world for years. We find ourselves on every continent in almost every country of the world. Many people have compared the United States to the Roman Empire and the fact that the Roman Empire crumbles and so will America. The idea that of America being a imperialist state is shared not only by anarchist
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The U.S was adamant that the Spanish had something to do with the sinking of the USS Maine in 1989. Considering the ship sunk in the Havana harbor‚ which was controlled by Spain‚ it was pretty easy for the U.S to point fingers. It seems pretty obvious Spain had something to do with the attack‚ however there has been some red flags pointing to just the opposite‚ in fact some people believe the U.S sunk the ship on purpose as a pretext to the military actions that followed. The U.S did gain many positive
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The Spanish-American war was the war between Spain and America‚ From April- August‚ 1898. The fight occurred Caribbean (Cuba) and Asia (Philippines). The causes of the war was the De Lome letter‚ Yellow Journalism‚ and USS Maine. The US won the war. The us gained the Philippines‚ Cuba‚ Guam‚ and Puerto Rico (Cuba was not added to the USA). The USA got involved in the Cuba war in 1899‚ Philippines war 1899‚ and the Hawaii war in the early 18th century. Local people had self determination
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The Spanish American War of 1898 was a war that lasted only ten weeks between the United States and Spain. A declaration of war was declared to Spain by the United States because of the sinking of the United States Ship Maine‚ but other causes that fueled America with the desire of war was the United States support for Cuban independence‚ business interests within Cuba because of their sugar‚ as well as the growing instigation of the United States newspapers that is called “Yellow Journalism”. During
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After the Civil War the US was divided and had significant economic problems‚ but the country moved forward by embracing innovations that sprung from the industrial revolution. American literature also embraced the progress by introducing themes and characters‚ such as telling the stories of common middle and lower class people‚ who were generally ignored before the war. These new literary trends were realism‚ which focused on everyday life‚ and naturalism‚ which focused on how people were controlled
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that also apply to regular people. William Dean Howells said this about fiction: “Let fiction cease to lie about life; let it portray men and women as they are‚ actuated by the motives and the passions in the measure we all know‚” (pg. 1134). A main trait of realism is how it portrays common situations and aspects of regular people. It specifically fit this time period because America was going through reform. Some of the stories from this time were about the war or its effects. Its purpose was to
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Moving on‚ in 1898‚ the Spanish American War came into existence under the leadership of President William McKinley. A few years before McKinley came into office‚ Cuba attempted to overthrow Spanish colonial rule‚ and in return‚ the Spanish rulers started using harsh policies that included concentration camps. The rebels received financial assistance from private U.S. interests and used America as a base of operations from which to attack. McKinley originally tried to avoid an armed conflict with
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“American imperialism in 1898 was not a sudden abandonment of anti-colonial tradition but was a logical extension of commercial expansion‚ something the US had been doing throughout its history” (SparkNotes: The Spanish American War‚ 1898-1901‚: Effects of the Treaty). President McKinley was not interested in wars of conquest or of territorial aggression. His interest in expansion was “to make the United States first in international commerce and as a means to implement its humanitarian and democratic
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