The Spanish American War
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| Who was James Creelman? | show 🗑
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| show | Spain would rather see it sink into the ocean
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| What important event in Cuba led the US to invest in its sugar cane plantations? | show 🗑
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| show | A Cuban poet and journalist who was in exile in New York used guerilla warfare, destroying US owned plantations in order to get us involved in the war for Cuban independence
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| Who was Valeriano Weyler? | show 🗑
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| What newspaper strategy was developed to gain sympathy toward Cubans? | show 🗑
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| show | William Hearst and Josepgh Pulitzer (Remington was an artist for them)
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| Which president was aubject of the De Lome letter scandal? | show 🗑
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| show | Even though no one knew the cause, yellow journalists blamed the Spanish
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| show | Remember the Maine!
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| What was the opening battle of the Spanish war? | show 🗑
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| show | A good army, we had few skilled troops and training camps lacked good leaders.
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| show | A volunteer cavalry lead by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt who gave up his job as assistant secretary of the nacy to lead the cavalry
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| San Juan Hill was an important capture for the US in Cuba. This man contributed a bit but was said to be the hero of San Juan | show 🗑
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| The Spanish broke through our blockade at the harbor of Santiago. But the ensuing battle led to the destruction of the Spanish navy. What did the US do next? | show 🗑
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| show | The Treaty of Paris 1898; Guam, Puerto Rico and the West Indies, they sold us the Phillipines and Cuba was free
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| show | Whether we had the right to annex it or not
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| show | Booker: we need to solve racial problems at home before we deal with other things; Gompers: Fillipinos are going to steal our jobs!
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| show | annexed them
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