At War With Spain

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At War With Spain

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"USS Maine Blowing UP in Havana Harbor  on
15 February 1898" -Navy Art Collection - Artist
Unknown
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I. People to Know

• 1. George Dewey-
• -Defeated Spanish
• fleet in Philippines
• 2. William C. Gorgas-
• -Reduced Typhoid
• and Yellow fever
• in Cuba

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• 3. William McKinley-
• -President (1898-1901)
• who urged Congress
• to take action
• against Spain
• 4. Walter Reed-
• -Discovered cause
• of Yellow Fever

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• 5. Theodore Roosevelt-
• -Secretary of Navy
• -Ordered Pacific Fleet to prepare
• for War with Spain in Philippines
• Rough Rider President
  Legend

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War with Spain

• Reasons for War
• 1. Interest in Cuba
• a. 90 miles from Fla.
• b. Sugar resources
• c. Monroe Doctrine
• 2. Sympathy for
• suffering Cubans
• 3. Yellow Press
• -False stories of
• ill treatment by
• Spanish
• 4. Two Incidents
• a. de Lome Letter
• b. Sinking of Maine

• Reasons Against War
• 1. Cost of American Lives
• 2. Financial Burden
• 3. We have our own problems here in the U.S.A.
• 4. Hypocritical
• We fight imperial
• powers yet we
• become one
• ourselves

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Questions

• 1.Why did the U.S. go to war with Spain?
• 2. What were the results of the Spanish American
  War?