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Title: At War With Spain


1
At War With Spain

www.spanamwar.com/
"USS Maine Blowing UP in Havana Harbor  on
15 February 1898" -Navy Art Collection - Artist
Unknown
2
I. People to Know
  • 1. George Dewey-
  • -Defeated Spanish
  • fleet in Philippines
  • 2. William C. Gorgas-
  • -Reduced Typhoid
  • and Yellow fever
  • in Cuba

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

4
  • 5. Theodore Roosevelt-
  • -Secretary of Navy
  • -Ordered Pacific Fleet to prepare
  • for War with Spain in Philippines
  • Rough Rider President
    Legend

5
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?
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