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  • We're gonna rebel!!!
  • We're gonna stop you!!!
  • Peace, but some demands...
  • Fine, but no independence.
  • Cuba's economy collapses in 1895 and they rebel. Spain decides to send 150,000 troops and their best general, Valeriano Weyler, to stop them.
  • Uh oh
  • Your cornered!
  • Yellow journalism, exaggerated stories, urged America to intervene in the rebellion. President McKinley sent a battleship to protect the U.S., but it was bombed!
  • Even though Americans called for war, McKinley hesitated. Then he sent a list of demands to the Spanish, and they accepted all accept for Cuban independence.
  • This was a splendid little war.
  • McKinley finally declares war, and he starts with the Philippines. The U.S. destroys the entire Spanish pacific fleet. America next moves on to Cuba.
  • The U.S. navy surrounds and destroys the rest of the Spanish fleet while Roosevelt leads the attack of San Juan Hill, where they also destroyed the Spanish.
  • Charge!!!
  • Spain signs the treaty of Paris, and even though the U.S. paid 20 million, they received Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Finally, Cuba got independence.