Download America`s foreign policy shifts from isolationism to expansionism

America’s foreign policy shifts from isolationism to expansionism.
American businesses invested over $100 million in Cuban sugar, rice and tobacco
plantations.
Cuban revolutionaries, like Jose Marti, begin publishing anti-Spanish propaganda like the
pamphlet Cuba Libre! and attacking American plantations in hopes of gaining American
sympathy in their efforts.
Spain sends General Weyler to squash the Cuban revolutionaries. He begins sending
revolution supporters to concentration camps within Cuba.
The escalation of violence in Cuba concerns Americans and leads to economic fears over
trade and fears for American plantation owners in Cuba.
The United States sends the USS Maine to patrol Havana Harbor.
The USS Maine “blows up” and kills over 200 Americans on board.
Newspapers run by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst begin using yellow
journalism, or sensationalizing the news, to encourage Americans to feel anger towards
Spain.
Americans declare war on Spain.
George Dewey leads American forces into Spanish owned Philippines while Teddy
Roosevelt and his Rough Riders lead American forces into Spanish territories in the
Caribbean.
Revolutionaries in the Philippines (like Emilio Aguinaldo) and in Cuba help Americans
fight the Spanish.
Battles occur at Manilla Bay in the Philippines and San Juan Hill in Puerto Rico.
The United States and Spain agree to an armistice, or cease fire.
The United States and Spain sign a treaty which gives the United States control of Puerto
Rico, Guam, and Cuba. The United States also agrees to pay $20 million for control of
the Philippines.
The Platt Amendment officially gives the United States control over Cuban affairs.
The Foraker Act gives Puerto Rico limited authority over their own government.