U.S. History: Book 2
Lesson 22—Handout 25 (page 1)
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Directions: For homework, read the following selections and write a one-sentence summary of the main idea of each one.
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1. Letter to McKinley from G.S. Businessmen
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. . . the Cuban war, which has now continued for three entire years, has caused an average loss of
} $100,000,000, or a total loss of $300,000,000 in the import and export trade between Cuba and the
United States, to which were added heavy sums irretrievably lost by the destruction of American
'; properties supported by American capital in the Island itself, such as sugar factories, railways, to-
. bacco plantations, mines and other industrial enterprises. . . .'
2. Correspondent for Pulitzer's New York World, May 17, 1896.
Blood on the roadsides, blood in the fields, blood on the doorsteps, blood, blood, blood! The old, the
young, the weak, the crippled—all are butchered without mercy. .'. .Is there no nation wise enough, braue enough, and strong enough to restore peace in this bloodsmitten land?
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3. Private letter from the Spanish minister, Enrique Depuy DeLome, to a friend. Letter was stolen and released to American newspapers on February 9, 1898.
. . . The situation here remains the same. Everything depends on the political and military outcome in Cuba. . . .
The message [of President McKinley to Congress] has been a disillusionment to the insurgents, who expected something different; but I regard it as bad for us.
Besides the ingrained and inevitable bluntness with which is repeated all that the press and public opinion in Spain have said about Weyler, it once more shows what McKinley is, weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, besides being a would-be politician who tries to leave a door
—— opefH^ehmdrhirns^lf Lvlriie keeping on good terms with, the jingoes of his party.
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From Tenth Edition of A Diplomatic History of the American People.
The New York Mail and Express exclaimed: "The necessary preliminaries to his departure cannot be
too speedy to satisfy public opinion. . . . Senor DeLome—the door stands open!" Officially, the incident was closed when Madrid accepted his resignation before the demand for his recall could be presented, but the American public, already inflamed, was slow to forget*
1. Theodore P. Greene, ed., American Imperialism in 1898 (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath & Co., 1955), p. 32.
2. T. A. Bailey, A Diplomatic History of The American People (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1940), p. 454.
3. Bernard Feder, Viewpoints: (J.SA (New York: American Book Co., 1967), p. 219.
4. Thomas A. Bailey, A Diplomatic History of the American People (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1940), p. 456.
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U.S. History: Book 2
Lesson 22—Handout 25 (page 2)
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5. From Seventh Edition of American Economic History.
paperman's war" prompted fay the so-> for the Cuban revolutionists and disgust for the policies of Spanish misrule, at the same time playing
- up every possible incident-that might lead to a breakjj}ith Spain. Behind the press was a small but powerful group led by Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, and others, who were enamored with the philosophy of Captain Mahan and who welcomed the war as an opportunity for
America to fulfill her "manifest destiny" in world affairs*
6. Cartoon—The Patient Citizen
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THE PATIENT CITIZEN — "lT*S VERY CONFUSING BUT POSSIBLY IT'S ALL TRUE/'
— The Record, Chicago
1. Cablegram to President McKinley from General Stewart L. Woodford, the American minister in Spain.
. . . In view of action of Spanish Government as cabled Saturday, April 9, / hope thstt you can obtain full authority from Congress to do whateoer you shall deem necessary to secure immediate and per-
manent peace in Cuba by negotiations, . . . / believe you will get final settlement before August 1 on one of the folloluing bases: either such autonomy as the insurgents may agree to accept, or recognition by Spain of the independence of the island, or cession of the island to the United States.
I hope that nothing will be done to humiliate Spain, as / am satisfied that the present Government is going, and is loyally ready to go, as fast and as far as it can, . . .
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5. Harold 0. Faulkner, American Economic History (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1954), p. 558.
6. Bernard Feder, ed.. Viewpoints: (J.SA. (New York: American Book Co., 1967), p. 220.
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