HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I Populist Party II Populist Party Platform 1892 Outline of Current Lecture I Spanish American War A Background to Cuban Independence II Newspapers A William Randolph Hearst B Joseph Pulitzer C Yellow Journalism III U S S Maine sent to Havana Harbor A The Sinking of the Maine B The Teller Amendment IV Theodore Roosevelt A Commodore Dewey B Rough Riders V Naval Engagements VI Treaty of Paris Current Lecture l A During the French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte is King He sells America Louisiana and once we buy it he has money to continue his war with Spain Because of all this war America creates the Monroe Doctrine which meant that European powers can t start a war in the waters near the U S In 1860 Cuba asks for help from America to get their independence back but it isn t until later that we help them ll A Hearst comes from a rich family so he was schooled in Europe After he came back he decided to buy a newspaper in Sacramento after this he was the first to create a newspaper chain To get more profits Hearst decides to change the headlines to big These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute banner headlines and put comic strips in papers and Sunday magazines However he is still not 1 B Pulitzer s newspaper The World is 1 in New York Pulitzer is the other big newspaper company besides Hearst s Despite Hearst s efforts to change his newspaper to become the best Pulitzer is still 1 so Hearst tries something different C Hearst has his reporters write yellow journalism which is where they take a story and embellish it His 1 story is the people of Cuba and how they re being sent to horrible concentration camps where a man named The Butcher runs them and many people had business in Cuba and Spain wanted to stop it So people wanted America to protect their businesses lll A President McKinley sends the U S S Maine down to the Havana Harbor without permission from the Spanish to protect American interests The Maine sits in the Harbor for a while until one day it exploded and sunk with people on board This story hits the newspapers who claim that the Spanish put bombs in the water and sunk the Maine It was later found out that the explosion was caused because someone put magazine powder near the boilers McKinley demands a public apology which Spain does and he also demands that the U S should be able to control the fate of Cuba Spain says no to this so McKinley declares war on Spain B During this declaration of war the Teller Amendment was created This amendment stated that if Congress funded the war then at the end of the war Cuba would have its independence lV A Theodore Roosevelt tells Commodore Dewey to take the Philippines and Guam when he gave the signal These places would become our base of operations When Roosevelt said this the President nor the Secretary of Navy knew about this B Roosevelt resigns and goes south to create the Rough Riders a volunteer army He recruits Texans to join They train for 6 weeks and then they went to Tampa where they hijacked a coal train to get to Tampa Bay When they get to Cuba the Spanish fleet gets beaten by the U S fleet At San Juan Hill Roosevelt is pictured putting an American flag in this hill This makes him a war hero so we make him President V The fighting in Cuba was 8 weeks long and there was high patriotism at this time When Cuba got its independence we also took Puerto Rico Vl The Treaty of Paris in 1898 gave Cuba its independence Later we signed another agreement with Cuba that stated that the U S gets Gitmo in perpetuity Gitmo becomes a territory of the U S
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