Pre-War
The War
Immediate Results
US Involvement in Asia
The Philippines
100

Movement in Cuba against Spain supported by the US

Cuban Independence Movement

100

Fighting began here

The Philippines

100

This treaty ended the war

Treaty of Paris

100

The main reason problem stopping the US from gaining economic options in China

European Spheres of Influence, shutting out the US.

100

What the Filipinos hoped to get in aiding the US in the Spanish-American War.

Independence

200

Exaggerated journalism that caused anti-Spanish sentiment

Yellow Journalism

200

Part of the military primarily used by the US in the war

Navy

200

This project was built in Panama after the war.

The Panama Canal

200

The Policy the US made to trade with China while also avoiding war with Europeans

Open Door Policy

200

The main leader of the Filipinos during the war, and used guerrilla tactics against the US in hopes of independence after the war.

Emilio Aguinaldo

300

America's agressive foreign policy

Jingoism

300

Had more casualties than battles during the war

Disease

300

The country given independence by the Teller Amendment after the Spanish-American War.

Cuba

300

Why the Boxer Rebellion formed.

Some Chinese did not like the foreign influence.
300

The Insular Cases primarily established this.

The US Congress needs to make the laws that grants rights to new territories; it is not immediately given.

400

Ship that sunk near Havana, Cuba

USS Maine

400

It took Spain this long to surrender

3 months

400

Countries given to the US through the Treaty of Paris

Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam

400

The President that mediated peace between Russia and Japan for economic stability in the region.

Theodore Roosevelt

400

The Filipino rebellion against US occupation resulted in this many civilian casualties and from these causes facilitated by the fighting.

Up to 1 million civilian casualties, mainly from famine and diseases.

500

Nickname for the Spanish General

The Butcher

500

Nickname for the war

A splendid little war

500

The main purpose of the Teller Amendment.

War declaration on Spain

500

The main diplomatic problem faced by the US with Japan around 1907.

Discrimination against Japanese in California, as the Japanese believed they should be treated with respect because they are industrialized.

500

Woodrow Wilson overturns the Insular Cases with this act, granting Filipinos rights, suffrage, territorial legislature, and a path to independence.

1916 Jones Act