AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John J. Pershing, Battle Of San Juan Hill, Fairy
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Battle of manilla bay: may 1898, the spanish are outgunned, ships are outdated, the us is able to defeat the entire spanish fleet, o(cid:374)l(cid:455) 1 u sailor died of heat stroke. July 1898: battle of san juan hill, kettle hill. Jack pershing leading african american company: roosevelt rode the fame of this into the political sphere, becoming the governor of ny and eventually president, pershi(cid:374)g did(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e the sa(cid:373)e fa(cid:373)e because he was working with african. Spanish-american war was short, few us losses. Spoils of war: puerto rico becomes annexed by us, cuba. We gave cuba independence on certain terms. Cuba had to give us territory for a naval base: this becomes guantanamo bay, the philippines. Sense of racial superiority over the filipinos: filipi(cid:374)os (cid:449)ere (cid:862)u(cid:374)fit for self go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863, we needed to uplift, educate, civilize, and christianize them, the philippine- american war. The war cost the us mil.
