10/25 and 7.3

Period 7: 1890-1945, Topic 3- Spanish American War

Student Learning Objective- Students will be able to explain the causes and effects of the Spanish American War.

Causes of Spanish American War:

-US imperialist desire

-De Lome Letter

    -Discussion Question #1- What is the main idea of the De Lome Letter?

    -Discussion Question #2- If were President McKinley, how do you react to the De Lome letter?

-Sinking of U.S.S. Maine

    -Discussion Question #3- What does the report conclude about the sinking of the USS Maine in 1898?

-Yellow Journalism

    -Discussion Question #4- What does the New York Journal conclude about the sinking of the USS Maine?

Effects of Spanish American War:

-Popularity of US imperialism policy

-Political cartoons!

    -POV?

-More political cartoons!

    -POV?

-Popularity of T.R.

-Treaty of Paris (1898)

-Platt Amendment

"From the Spanish inhabitants of Cuba, the revolution, which neither flatters nor fears, hopes to receive, instead of the dishonorable wrath of the first war, such affectionate neutrality or truthful assistance as to make the war shorter, its disasters lesser, and the peace in which fathers and sons must live together easier and friendlier. We Cubans are starting the war, and Cubans and Spaniards will finish it together. If they do not mistreat us, we will not mistreat them. If they show respect, we will respect them. The blade is answered with the blade, and friendship is answered with friendship."

-Jose Marti and Maximo Gomez- "Montecristi Manifesto" (1895)


Discussion Question #1- What is the historical situation introduced in the excerpt?

Discussion Question #2- The excerpt does not mention the US.  What role should the US play in your opinion?

Discussion Question #3- How did the situation change after this excerpt?

Discussion Question #4- What role did the US play in the conflict?


“I believe, we shall find arguments in favor of the retention of the Philippines as possessions of great value and a source of great profit to the people of the United States which cannot be overthrown. First, as to the islands themselves. They are over a hundred thousand square miles in extent, and are of the greatest richness and fertility. From these islands . . . there is no tropical product which cannot be raised in abundance. . . .

“A much more important point is to be found in the markets which they furnish. The total value of exports and imports for 1896 amounted in round numbers to $29,000,000. . . . There can be no doubt that the islands in our peaceful possession would take from us a very large proportion of their imports. . . . With the development of the islands and the increase of commerce and of business activity the consumption of foreign imports would rapidly advance, and of this increase we should reap the chief benefit. . . .

“. . . Manila, with its magnificent bay, is the prize and the pearl of the East. In our hands it will become one of the greatest distributing points, one of the richest emporiums of the world’s commerce. Rich in itself, with all its fertile islands behind it, it will . . . enable American enterprise and intelligence to take a master share in all the trade of the Orient! We have been told that arguments like these are sordid. Sordid indeed! . . . A policy which proposes to open wider markets to the people of the United States . . . seems to me a great and noble policy.”

Henry Cabot Lodge, senator, speech to the United States Senate, 1900

Discussion Question #5- What is Lodge's point of view?

Discussion Question #6- Why did the US have possession of Philippines in 1900? (historical situation)

Discussion Question #7- Why did political opponents call HCL's POV "sordid" (involving dishonorable actions or motives)?

Quest- Find a source that would agree with the assumption that HCL's POV was sordid or immoral.

Reading/Quiz Schedule:

Friday, November 1-  American Pageant Chapter 28 Quiz 

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