Weston's Spanish American War
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- The U.S.S Maine is blown up
- HEHEHE
- Give Cuba independence, End Concentration Camps, And give us money for the Maine
- US demands to the Spanish
- The US
- Everything except Cuban independence!
- Spain
- Cubans burn the Sugar Cane
- This'll get that American attention
- A man blows up the U.S.S. Maine, destroying the boat, and killing all 250 sailors on board.
- McKinley's Role in Peace
- The US sends demands to the Spanish, and they agree to all but Cuban independence
- Yellow Journalism
- Cubans burn Suar Cane to get American Sugar businesses to pressure the government into war.
- Territory Gained
- President McKinley wanted to retain relations with the Spanish, but everyone else wanted war.
- It's getting hard to keep peace. People want war.
- US companies were being sensitive towards the Cubans because of the burning sugar
- Cubans are being hurt! Let's go to war!
- Through the Treaty of Paris, the US gained Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines after winning the Spanish-American War. The US did have to pay $20 million though.
- Puerto RIco
- Phillipines
- Guam
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