Getting to California Cuban Revolution – Cuban people looking to get their freedom from Spain largely revolved around sugar Yellow journalism – exaggerated

• Cuban Revolution – Cuban people looking to get their freedom from Spain largely revolved around sugar

• Yellow journalism – exaggerated (sometimes blatantly false) stories made up by the press in order to sell newspapers

• USS Maine – U.S. Navy ship in the harbor of Havana, Cuba in February, 1898. The explosion killed 266 Americans on board and blame was placed on Spain although later it was proven that they were not at fault.

• Jingoism - extreme patriotism and confidence in one’s nation that leads to an aggressive foreign policy

• “Rough Riders” – one of the groups that led the infamous charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War and helped create the legend of Theodore Roosevelt

Ch 12 Sec 2: Spanish American War

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College: Allegheny College

Height: 5’7”

Religion: Methodist

Children: Had two daughters but both died at early ages (four months and four years)

Occupation: lawyer

Previous Political Offices: House of Representatives (1877-91); Governor of Ohio (1892-96)

First President to ride in an automobile

…..to use a telephone while campaigning

….to marry a woman that was not a teacher

Was the LAST U.S. President to serve in the Civil War (his commanding officer was Rutherford B. Hayes – both from Ohio)

Presidential Facts of William McKinley

Sign: Aquarius

Nickname: The Napoleon of Protection

Campaign Theme: “Prosperity, Commerce and Civilization”

Favorite Sport: swimming

Other Notes of Interest….

Featured on the $500 bill.

Was thought to hold the record for Presidential handshaking (2500 per hour).

Ironically it was while shaking hands that he was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz.

McKinley exercised very little. Had he been in better shape, his doctors said he might have survived his assassin's bullets

Last Words: "It's God's way. His will, not ours, be done."

Fun Presidential Facts of William McKinley

Intro 3

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Chapter ObjectivesSection 2: The Spanish-American War• Describe the circumstances that led to war

between the United States and Spain in 1898.

• Explain how the war made the United States a world power.

Intro 1

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Section 2-1


Guide to Reading

The United States defeated Spain in a war, acquired new overseas territories, and became an imperial power.

• José Martí

Main Idea

Key Terms and Names

• William Randolph Hearst

• Joseph Pulitzer • yellow journalism

• jingoism • Theodore

Roosevelt

• Platt Amendment


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The Coming of War


• Cuba, a Spanish colony, provided wealth for Spain with sugarcane plantations.


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The Coming of War


• In 1868 Cuban rebels declared independence and began a guerrilla attack against Spanish authorities.

• After the attack failed, the Cuban rebels fled to the United States to plan a new revolution.

• Writer and poet José Martí, an exiled leader of Cuba’s revolution, fled to New York City.

• He raised money from Americans and began purchasing weapons and training troops to prepare for an invasion of Cuba.

• In 1894, after the United States imposed new tariffs on sugar, the economy of Cuba was devastated.

• Martí and his followers began a new rebellion in February of 1895.

• They seized control of eastern Cuba, declared its independence, and set up

the Republic of Cuba in September 1895.

The Coming of War (cont.)


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• At the start of the Cuban revolution, Americans were neutral.

• But after reports in two newspapers, the New York Journal owned by William Randolph Hearst and the New York World owned by Joseph Pulitzer, Americans began to side with the rebels.



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• The newspapers, trying to outdo each other, began to use yellow journalism by running exaggerated stories of Spanish attacks on Cubans.



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Language Arts “Yellow” journalism takes its name from the “Yellow kid” comic strip, which featured a scrappy little bald kid in a flashy yellow nightshirt. Drawn by R.F. Outcault, the comic strip first ran in 1895 in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. The bright yellow ink attracted readers. Therefore, yellow journalism came to refer to flashy, unsubstantiated news accounts.



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• The Cuban rebels attacked and destroyed American property, hoping for American intervention in the war.

• The Spanish appointed General Valeriano Weyler to serve as governor. (Known to Cubans as “Weyler the Butcher”)

• He caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Cuban villagers by sending them to reconcentration camps.

• This led Americans to call for intervention in the war.



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• The Spanish ambassador to the U.S., Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, wrote a private letter, describing President McKinley as weak and seeking admiration of Americans.

• The New York Journal printed the letter, causing Americans to become angry over the insult.



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• In February 1898, the U.S.S. Maine, anchored in Havana, Cuba, exploded, killing 266 American officers and sailors.



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Strong Ego William Randolph Hearst sent artist Frederic Remington to Cuba to cover events after the explosion of the Maine. When the expected conflict between the United States and Spain did not immediately materialize, the artist asked if he should return home. Hearst called back, “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.”

• Although no one knows why the ship exploded, many Americans blamed Spain.



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• President William McKinley did not want to intervene in the war, fearing it would cost the United States too many lives and hurt the economy.



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• Within the president’s own political party, jingoism was very strong.



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• In 1898, after much pressure, McKinley authorized Congress to declare war on Spain.



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When President McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war, the House of Representatives voted 311 to 6 in support of the declaration. The Senate was more evenly divided, voting 42 to 35. To appease some reluctant members of Congress, the Teller amendment was added to the declaration. The amendment called for the United States to help Cuba become an independent country once the war had ended.

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A War on Two Fronts


• The United States Navy’s North Atlantic Squadron blockaded Cuba.

• An American fleet in British Hong Kong was ordered to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines–a Spanish colony.

• In May 1898, Commodore George Dewey led a squadron that destroyed or captured Spanish warships in Manila Bay in the Philippines.

• McKinley sent 20,000 American troops to the Philippines and, along the way, seized the island of Guam–a Spanish possession in the Pacific.

• The American army was untrained and unequipped.

• Poor conditions in training camps resulted in more Americans dying in training than in battle.

A War on Two Fronts (cont.)


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Most of the deaths in the Spanish American War were from disease and food poisoning, including a batch of tainted meat that Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders got from the Armor Meat Packing Plant, the same plant that will be the setting of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”.

• In June, American troops advanced toward Santiago Harbor in Cuba.

• One group attacked the village of El Caney, and another group attacked San Juan Heights.

• Both attacks were American victories.



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• Among the American troops were the “Rough Riders” led by Colonel Leonard Wood, with Theodore Roosevelt (3 years before Presidency) as Second in command.



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Made for a Movie The reenactment of Roosevelt’s “Charge of San Juan Hill” was a popular theatric production at vaudeville houses and “wild west shows” across the country

Analyzing Visuals

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Analyzing Art Considering what you have learned about the Rough Riders and this battle, what is inaccurate about the painting? What kind of artistic bias is evident in this painting?

Analyzing Visuals



The Rough Riders are on horseback in the painting, but in battle they were actually on foot. The painting glorifies the Rough Riders.

• Along with the Rough Riders were the all-black 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments.

• About one-fourth of the American troops fighting in Cuba were African American.



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The Tenth Cavalry was one of four African American units to serve in Cuba. Although their courage was highly praised, they were not considered equals. The U.S. Army did not abolish segregated units until 1948 (after WWII).



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• Spanish resistance ended with the surrender of Santiago.



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• On August 12, 1898, Spain and the United States agreed to a cease-fire.

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