SpanishAmerican

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Spanish-American

• WAR!

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Spain takes advantage of

• CUBA!!
• They are only allowed to trade with Spain
• And . . . Then have to pay a higher price!

3
Cuba gets Mad . . .

• So they . . . BURN THEIR FIELDS under Maximo
  Gomez

4
Butcher Weyler

• Spain sends him to lay the smack down on the
  Cubans and stop them from burning their fields

5
Hearst gets involved

• Olivette!- women were searched on the ship (were
  they raped?)
• Evangelina Cisneros
• Save the women!

6
President McKinley

• Is . . . Against going to war!
• Peoples President
• So he sends . . . THE U.S.S MAINE to Cuba

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So . . . The Spanish-American War BEGINS

• Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders