12.2 Spanish American war packet

yellow journalism

-click baiting in newspapers

-when reporters exaggerate/ make up stories to attract readers

jingoism

-an attitude of aggressive nationalism (pride for one’s country)

Jose Marti

-Cuban writer, poet, & exiled leader who was passionate about Cuban independence

-brought together Cuban exile groups in the US to train and gather supplies to invade Cuba

William Randolph Hearst

-owned New York Journal

-competed the New York World for readers through yellow journalism

Joseph Pulitzer

-owned New York World

-competed the New York Journal for readers through yellow journalism

Theodore Roosevelt

-Assistant secretary of the Navy who ranged that McKinley didn’t declare war after the Maine exploded

-Second in command of the Rough Riders

Platt Amendment

-amendment attached to 1901 army appropriations bill given post-war by senator Orville Platt

-made Cuba a US protectorate → kept Cuba tied to the US

explain why many Americans blamed Spain for the explosion of the USS Maine

-in Havana harbor off Cuba when it exploded

-got the idea that