2/27/23 Quiz Flashcards
Who ruled Cuba in the late 1890s?
Spain
the warfare that develops between the Spanish and the Cuban Rebels
Guerilla War
The journalism that used gimmicks or exaggerated news
Yellow Press or Yellow Journalism
wrote the New York Journal
William Randolph Hearst
wrote the New York World
Joseph Pulitzer
Who reported sensational and biased news with exaggerated stories?
Hearst and Pulitzer
Who ORIGINALLY didn’t want a war with Spain?
President Cleveland
After President Cleveland, who else didn’t want a war with Spain?
President McKinely
Where does fighting break out in 1898?
Havana Cuba
What does Mckinely send in to protect the US citizens and propety?
the USS Maine
On what date does the USS Maine explode?
February 15, 1898
about how many people died when the ship explodes?
about 260
Pulitzer and Hearst wrote that the explosion was a direction of what group of people?
the Spanish
