HIST 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fidel Castro, Platt Amendment, U.S. Route 400
12 Sep 2016
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Progressive era lesson 1: the spanish american war week 4. Before this war, the us had remained fairly isolated. Us actively seeks colonies and gets in a war with europe (specifically spain) We were considered third rate military status before this. Cuba is only 90 miles off the coast of florida. U. s. has money invested in the island. More than 100 million dollars" worth of trade. To get readers to buy papers they would try to say the most outrageous things. Half of the stories aren"t even true. Spanish rounded up villages relocated to military installations. Spanish believed they were helping but a lot of atrocities were occurring. Had been sent to protect american property and buildings. Believed it was blown up by spanish, but it actually exploded on its own. April 1898 us declared war on spain remember the maine . Us could not annex cuba after the war. Us was ill-equipped to fight tropical war.
