5. Isolationism vs. Expansionism
• Isolationism >
national policy of
avoiding involvement
in world affairs.
• No alliances.
• No conflicts.
• Spur economy.
• Expansionism >
actions used by one
nation to exercise
political or economic
control over a smaller
or weaker nation.
• Why become
imperialistic?
9. Why is Cuba important?
• Proximity to the U.S.
>> 100 miles
• Owned by Spain
• One-third of the
world’s sugar
• $100 million of U.S.
trade per year
• Cubans want freedom
10. Cuban Revolution
• Jose Marti-Cuban
writer and
revolutionary
• U.S. was officially
neutral
• U.S. citizens support
Cubans Why?
11. Spain’s Reaction
• Spain sends 200,000
troops to the island
• General Valeriano Weyler
(“The Butcher”)
• Cubans destroyed
American properties.
Why?
• Spain sets up
concentration camps
12. New President, New Policy?
• William McKinley is
elected in 1896
• Productive diplomacy
with Spain
• Cuban rebels still
called for
independence
• McKinley sends ships
14. What is yellow journalism?
• Writers exaggerated or made up the news
stories to attract readers. Why?
• Newspapers in 1898
• Who used yellow journalism in 1898?
• 2 tycoon journalists
28. War Begins
• Commodore George
Dewey attacks the
Philippines (a
Spanish possession)
• Battle over by noon
• 1 U.S. death
29. War in Cuba
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U.S. Army is poorly trained
Community based fighting units
Swamps >> malaria and yellow fever
Buffalo Soldiers >> Who led them?
Stephen Crane >> wrote battle stories
31. Rough Riders
• Voluntary unit of the
First Cavalry
• Leonard Wood and
Theodore Roosevelt
• Diverse backgrounds
• Battle of San Juan Hill
32. Treaty of Paris
• Cuba given independence (with U.S.
protection)
• U.S. gains the Philippines, Puerto Rico,
and Guam (formerly Spanish possessions)
• U.S. gives Spain $20 million
33. The Big Picture
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4 month war
385 U.S. deaths from battle
2,061 U.S. deaths from disease
Healed sectional wounds
Made U.S. a naval power >> Need for a
canal to connect oceans
