Victory and Aftermath

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Victory and Aftermath
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Peace with Spain

• Treaty of Paris 1898
• No reparations
• Spanish cedes (gives) some territory to US for
  20 million
• Agreements to exchange prisoners of war

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Puerto Rico

• Spain had granted autonomy just before war
• Spain tries to keep in negotiations
• Ceded to US in Treaty (along with Guam)
• Military rule

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Puerto Rico

• 1917 Puerto Ricans made US citizens
• 1948 First elected governor
• Exists today as Commonwealth

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Cuba

• Spain relinquishes all claims on Cuba
• US military occupation
• McKinley proposes 20 year trusteeship

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Cuba

• Patriots become lazy, greedy and
  ungrateful
• Self-government! Why these people are no more
  fit for self-government than gunpowder is for
  hell
• Gen. William Shafter

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Cuba

• Roosevelt offers independence
• Platt Amendment, 1901
• Guantánamo Bay
• No foreign debt or treaties
• Cuba becomes US satellite
• Repealed 1934

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Cuba

• Series of dictators and coups
• Batista
• Friendly to American Capital
• 1959 Fidel Castro
• Communist regime

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The Philippines

• Spain cedes to US for 20 million
• Aguinaldo declares Filipino Independence
• US refuses to recognize

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The Philippines

• 1899-1901 Philippine-American War
• Colonial rule
• 1935 Commonwealth
• 1946 Independence