Freedom in Cuba
Land the US Gained
America's Power in Cuba
Puerto Rico's New Government
The Philippine's Revolt
100
The U.S. anchored its ship, the Maine, here and a short while later exploded.
What happened in Havana?
100
Land the U.S. gained from Spain.
What is the Philippines?
100
A nation whose independence is limited by the control of a more powerful country.
What is a protectorate?
100
In this year Puerto Ricans were know as American citizens.
What is 1917?
100
He led the Filipinos in a fight for their freedom against the U.S.
What did Emilio Aguinaldo do?
200
After this it agreed to sign a treaty in Paris in December 1898 that granted Cuba its freedom.
What did Spain do after it was defeated?
200
Puerto Rico in the Caribbean and Guam in the Pacific.
What two islands were given to the U.S. from Spain?
200
This gave the U.S. the power to intervene in Cuba along with giving America control of the naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
200
This gave Puerto Ricans a small and limited say in their own affairs.
What is the Foraker Act?
200
The war ended in 1901, when Aguinaldo was captured and the United States won the war.
How did the War in the Philippines end?
300
This occurred in Santiago Bay.
Where was the Spanish fleet destroyed?
300
The Philippines.
What area of land was worth $20 million?
300
This happened in the year 1902.
What year did America pull its army out of Cuba?
300
Once this happened America set up schools, improved healthcare, and built roads on the island.
What did America do when it gained control of Puerto Rico?
300
The war dragged on for years. At one point, 60,000 American soldier had taken part in the war.
How long did The War in the Philippines last and how many people had gone to war?
400
This happened as a result of the U.S. destroying the Spanish fleet at Santiago Bay.
Why did Spain surrender?
400
Spain did this.
Who gave America areas of land after the Spanish-American War?
400
This happened in 1906 & 1917.
What two years did America return to Cuba?
400
It was based under the Foraker Act.
What was Puerto Rico's new government based under?
400
He used military force in order to keep Filipinos from attaining the same rights that Americans had proclaimed more than a century before.
What did Emilio Aguinaldo do to keep Filipinos from attaining the same rights that Americans had proclaimed more than a century before?
500
The U.S. had suspected that it was Spain trying to stop the Americans from gaining freedom.
What led to the start of the Spanish-American War?
500
The peace treaty signed by Spain in 1898 caused a debate in the U.S.This one group favored the treaty.
Who are the expansionists?
500
Create their own constitution.
What were the Cubans allowed to do?
500
To break away from foreign ruling.
What did Puerto Ricans want to do?
500
The War in the Philippines was the first all out Asian war in which the United States was directly involved in the violence.
What made the War in the Philippines special?
M
e
n
u