Presidential Action
This President is the one the De Lome letter was talking mad trash about
William McKinley
This is the name of the first war fought under American Imperialism
Spanish - American War
"This ships name, and to hell with Spain!"
USS Maine
A type of Journalism in which you purposely sensationalize the headlines.
Yellow Journalism
The richest Oil Man in US History
John D. Rockafeller
Why would McKinley send a Naval Ship down to Havana's Harbor?
To Show Force
We convinced this country under Spanish rule to rise up and fight with us to gain their freedom, only to take them over ourselves for the next 50 years....
Philippines
Name one way in which the US was unprepared to fight a war with Spain
Answers Vary
The real cause of the explosion....
Combustion error, Etc.
Steerage
This later president would leave his post as Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
Where did the US invest in plantations and slavery after the civil war ended?
Cuba
These voluntary soldiers were former college athletes and avids hunters who went to fight under Theodore Roosevelt.
Rough Riders
The name of the Cartoon responsible for the eventual headlines that start the Spanish American War.
The Yellow Kid
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
One was shot and killed, the other was shot and lived. Who was who?
William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt.
This group advicated that the US should never expand it's territory, no matter the cause or reason.
Anti-Imperialists
This is what gave the US the islands of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the purchasing of the Philippines for $20 million.
Treaty of Paris 1898
How long was Roosevelts speech after he had been shot?
90 Minutes
A not so used anymore piece of War technology shares its name with my son.
Cannon
This President denied the annexation of Hawaii, while William McKinley later would annex that very same territory.
Grover Cleveland
This was the queens name in Hawaii.
Queen Liliuokalani
It is said that we lost more men to diseases than bullet fire in this war. Name two diseases they would have succumb to.
Dysentery, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Etc.
Throwback! what island was the main stopping point for Asian Immigration?
Angel Island
This notorious man was known for stealing some $200 million from New York City! All to be brought down by a political cartoonist names Thomas Nast.