Transcript The Spanish-American War

The SpanishAmerican War
Objective:
Analyze how the
Spanish American
war
started(11.4.2)
APK
• Imperialism
– Moral
– Commercial
– Military
Importance
• What event sparks the start of the
Spanish-American War?
1. Americans sympathies toward Cuba want for
independence.
2. The U.S.S. Maine exploding in Havana
harbor.
3. American businesses wanted trading rights in
Puerto Rico.
4. The Spanish invasion of Florida.
Spanish Possessions
• By late 1800s, Spain lost most of its
colonies.
• Kept the Philippines, Guam, and Cuba and
Puerto Rico
Pair Share:
How would Spain react to
the lose of its colonies?
What do you believe
Spain’s reaction would be
to a call for independence
from its colonies?
Cubans Rebel Against Spain
• United States 90 miles from Cuba
• Always been interested in Cuba
How would the proximity of
the US to Cuba effect
interaction between the two
countries?
Cubans Rebel Against Spain
• 1854 Pres Pierce tried to buy Cuba from
Spain
– We would rather see Cuba sunk into the
ocean
• 1868-1878 Cubans rebelled against Spain
– Lost
• 1886: Spain is forced to abolish slavery.
• Gained American sympathy.
– American business invested in Sugar Cane
What would America gain from helping Cuba?
Cubans Rebel Against Spain
• Jose Marti (a poet and journalist)
– launches a second war for independence.
• Uses
– guerilla tactics
– deliberately destroys property.
• Hopes the U.S. will help the rebels
achieve Cuba Libre!
– Free Cuba
Explain how tactics used by Mari would effect
the Spanish desire to fight.
Jose Marti
Why would some Americans feel
sympathetic to the rebel cause?
War Fever Escalates
• Spain attempts to crush the rebellion
– 300,000 rebels into concentration camps.
• Valeriano Weyler
• Thousands died from hunger and disease.
What do you believe Spain was trying to
accomplish by sending Gen Weyler to
Cuba?
Yellow Journalism
• American newspapers attracted readers
– print exaggerated accounts of Spanish
actions
• William Randolph Hearst
• Joseph Pulitzer
Yellow Journalism
• Hearst to a photographer: “You furnish the
pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
Explain the quote
Yellow Journalism
• U.S.S. Maine to rescue American citizens
from the fighting in Cuba.
• February 15, 1898: the U.S.S. Maine
explodes, killing 260 men.
• Newspapers blame the explosion on
Spain.
War Ends
• After 16 weeks, Spain surrenders.
• The Treaty of Paris gives Cuba, Guam,
Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the
U.S.
• Filipinos are upset because they were
promised freedom
– WANTED INDEPENDENCE from US
Aftermath
• America annexes all of these territories
• America is now an empire, and a major
world power.
The
Spanish
Brute
 What
symbols,
images,
words, etc.
can you spot
in the
picture?
 What do they
mean?
What does the word jingoism
mean?
Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry
American) Toby Keith
American girls and American guys will always
stand up and salute;
Will always recognize, When we see ol' glory
flying,
There's a lot of men dead, So we can sleep in
peace at night when we lay down our head.
Hey Uncle Sam put your name at the top of
his list, And the Statue of Liberty started
shaking her fist. And the eagle will fly, And
there's gonna be Hell, When you hear Mother
Freedom start ringing her bell! It's gonna feel
like the whole wide world is raining down on
you... Brought to you courtesy of the Red,
My daddy served in the army, Where he lost his White and Blue!
right eye. But he flew a flag out in our yard 'til
the day that he died. He wanted my mother, my Oh, Justice will be served and the battle will
rage. This big dog will fight when you rattle
brother, my sister and me
his cage, You'll be sorry that you messed with
To grow up and live happy in the land of the
the US of A
free.
'Cuz we'll put a boot in your ass, It's the
American way.
Now this nation that I love has fallen under
attack. A mighty sucker punch came flying in
from somewhere in the back. Soon as we could
see clearly through our big black eye,
Importance
• What event sparks the start of the
Spanish-American War?
1. Americans sympathies toward Cuba want for
independence.
2. The U.S.S. Maine exploding in Havana
harbor.
3. American businesses wanted trading rights in
Puerto Rico.
4. The Spanish invasion of Florida.
Closure
• All of the following countries came under
some form of U.S. control as a result of
the Spanish-American War except
– 1. Hawaii.
– 2. Cuba.
– 3. Puerto Rico.
– 4. the Philippines.
Closure
• The Philippines fought the United States
just after the Spanish-American War
because the United States
– 1. refused to protect the Philippines in a war
with Japan.
– 2. would not allow international trade in
Philippine ports.
– 3. tried to force the Filipinos to accept a
constitution they did not want.
– 4. had kept the Philippines as a colony, and it
wanted independence.
Closure
• Newspaper owner William Randolph
Hearst’s famous quote, “You furnish the
pictures and I’ll furnish the war” is an
example of
– 1. black balling.
– 2. muckraking.
– 3. yellow journalism.
– 4. backstabbing.
Closure
• One result of the Spanish-American War
of 1898 is that the United States was
– 1. recognized as a world power.
– 2. committed to isolationism.
– 3. drawn into World War II.
– 4. forced into an economic depression.