Cuban re-concentration
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100
Cuban prisoners died rapidly from this in concentration camps.
What is disease?
100
These people urged the United States to intervene in the revolution, and U.S. businesses voiced concern about their large investments on the island.
What is Humanitarians
100
On February 15, 1898, an American battleship, the Maine, exploded in this harbor, killing 266 people.
What is Havana harbor?
100
This army remained in Cuba until 1901.
What is U.S. Army?
100
This general was known as "The Butcher."
What is General Weyler?
200
In 1896, General Weyler of Spain implemented the first wave of the Spanish "Reconcentracion Policy" that sent thousands of Cubans into these kinds of camps.
What is concentration camps?
200
This President sought to avoid entanglement in Cuba.
Who is President Cleveland?
200
The four-month war ended in August with a victory for this country.
What is United States?
200
On this date the United States signed an armistice, and later that year, a peace settlement.
What is August 1898?
200
Cuba was transformed from a sleepy, unimportant island into the major producer of this natural resource.
What is sugar?
300
Over 400,000 Cubans died as a result of this policy.
What is Spanish Reconcentration Policy?
300
This President sent a message to Congress, which adopted a resolution recognizing Cuban independence and renouncing any intent to annex the island, but Spain refused to withdraw.
Who is President McKinley?
300
This country would surrender all claims to Cuba and assume Cuba’s debt.
What is Spain?
300
When a Nationalist-initiated conflict broke out again in Cuba in this year, the Spanish, remembering the lengthy Ten Years' War, sent 200,000 troops to Cuba.
What is 1895?
300
While most of Latin America was breaking with this country, Cuba remained loyal.
What is Spanish?
400
To prevent the insurrectos from leading the population against this countries rule, Weyler built concentration camps in which he imprisoned a large portion of the population.
What is Spanish?
400
This Secretary of State called the Spanish-American war a “splendid little war.”
Who is John Hay?
400
This country had become a major world power with an overseas empire.
What is United States?
400
Between these years the Second war of independence was lead by Jose Marti.
What is 1895-1898?
400
Cuban loyalty began to change as a result of this rivalry with Spaniards for the governing of the island, increased Spanish despotism and taxation, and the growth of Cuban nationalism.
What is Creole?
500
This general regained the initiative with the support of substantial reinforcements. Seeking to starve out the rebels operating in the countryside, he herded the rural population into garrisoned towns, where bad and inadequate food and lack of sanitation brought death to thousands of peasants.
Who is General Valeriano Weyler?
500
This group was composed of 1,250 men, including cowboys, Native Americans and eastern college athletes.
What is The Rough Riders?
500
This U.S. territory was won over by the United States.
What is Puerto Rico
500
In this year the US defeated Spain and all Spanish claims to Cuba are relinquished and cedes it to the US.
What is 1898?
500
As a result of increasingly strained relations between these two countries, the Americans entered the conflict in 1898.
What is Spain and the United States?
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