Spanish American War

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Spanish American War

• Learning Target Identify the Causes and Effects
  of the Spanish American War
• US History

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Spanish American War
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Causes of Spanish American War

• American Sympathy towards Cuban Fight for Freedom
  against Spanish Rule
• Butcher Weyler forced 300,000 Cuban Rebels into
  concentration camps
• Monroe Doctrine chance to get Spain out of
  Western Hemisphere
• Economic Interests sugar plantations
• Yellow Journalism American Press got Americans
  behind going to war
• Spark Sinking of the USS Maine

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Yellow Journalism

• A type of journalism that distorts and
  exaggerates the news to create sensations and
  attract readers

William Randolph Hearst vs Joseph
Pulitzer. New York Journal
New York World
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1.What is most noticeable about the example? 2.
How is this media making people feel? 3. How
would this influence or change peoples mind?
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Characteristics of Yellow Journalism

• Characteristics of Yellow Journalism
• Headlines in huge print, often of minor news
• Many pictures, or imaginary drawings
• use of faked interviews, misleading headlines,
  and false information from so-called experts
• dramatic sympathy with the "underdog" against the
  system.
• Emotional words and symbols scare tactics

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Does Yellow Journalism Still Exist?
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Important Events

• Sinking of the USS Maine
• 266 US Servicemen are killed
• Blamed on a Spanish mine
• Admiral Dewey Surprise attack on the Spanish
  Fleet in Manila Harbor
• All Spanish Ships are Sunk
• Spanish Defeated in Battle of San Juan Hill
• T. Roosevelt led the Rough Riders to victory
• Spain signs Treat of Paris Ending the War

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Effects of the Spanish American War

• US becomes an Imperialist Power
• Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines become
  colonies of the US
• Cuba gains its independence from Spain, but
  becomes a US Protectorate
• US will protect and partially control Cuba
• Philippine rebels wanting independence declare
  war on US

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What really happened to the Battleship Maine?
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Which of the following is not a cause of the
Spanish American War

1. Monroe Doctrine
2. Desire for economic opportunity
3. Sympathy for the Spanish
4. Sinking of the Battleship Maine
5. Yellow Journalism

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Which of the following is not an effect of the
Spanish American War?

1. US became an imperialistic power
2. Cuba became a US Protectorate
3. Filipino rebels declared war on the US
4. Spains colonies were free

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Which of the following defines Yellow Journalism

1. Factual, Unbiased news
2. Distorted or Exaggerated news
3. A type of news that no longer exists today
4. Proven news written by experts

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Assignment

• From some event in the Spanish American War video
  clip or your textbook, design the front page of a
  newspaper in the sensational style of Hearst
  and Pulitzer. Use a blank 8 ½ by 11 inch piece
  of paper include headlines (both large and
  small) and include some pictures.
• Ideas Purchase of Alaska from Russia, Mexican
  American War, Butcher Weylers treatment of
  Cubans, Annexation of Hawaii