Chapter 27 Review

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Chapter 27 Review
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What to know.

• The Monroe Doctrine
• Venezuela/ British Dispute
• Yellow Journalism/ Jingoism
• Hawaii
• Remember the Maine
• McKinleys reasons for war
• Puerto Rico
• Cuba

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The Spanish American WarApril 25-August 12, 1898

• The expansionists in the United States wanted to
  acquire Cuba, and in 1895 Cuban nationalists
  began an insurrection against the Spanish
  government.
• William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
  started their yellow journalism newspaper war,
  molding public opinion in favor of U.S.
  intervention against Spain and the annexation of
  Cuba.
• With the blowing up of the battleship USS Maine
  in Havana Harbor and the loss of 266 lives,
  President William McKinley was pressured by
  Congress into asking for a declaration of war.

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The Philippines

• Starting on April 25, 1898, the bloody combat
  lasted only a few months, so that Secretary of
  State John Hay called it "the splendid little
  war."
• In the Pacific, Commodore George Deweys squadron
  slipped into Manila Bay on May 1 in the
  Philippines and destroyed the obsolete Spanish
  fleet lying at anchor.
• Aided by army reinforcements, Dewey captured the
  city of Manila on August 13. The U.S. Navy then
  seized Spanish Guam and unclaimed Wake Island,
  and Congress, by a joint resolution, annexed the
  Hawaiian Islands.

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Cuba and the End

• In May 1898 the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba,
  was blockaded. American troops under Gen. William
  Shafter landed in Cuba and the Rough Riders, were
  victorious at the Battles of El Caney and San
  Juan (Kettle's) Hill.
• The Spanish fleet made a dash for the open seas
  but was destroyed by the U.S. fleet led by Rear
  Adm. William Sampson in less than four hours.
• On July 17, twenty-four thousand Spanish troops
  surrendered.
• In the Treaty of Paris (1898) Cuba became
  independent, and the United States claimed Puerto
  Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands.
• The treaty barely passed the Senate, with only
  two votes over the two-thirds needed for
  ratification.

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Monkey says Good Luck