2. Jose Marti

3. General Valeriano Weyler

5. What caused an increase in tension
between the United States and Spain?
• 1. In 1895 civil war broke out in Cuba between
Spain and the Cubans
• 2. The conflict was described by Senator
Redfield Proctor of Vermont as bloody and brutal
• 3. Newspapers (particularly those owned by
William Randolph Hearst) reported the brutality
of the Spanish General Weyler in graphic and
often biased terms.
• The New York Journal reports "...blood on the
roadsides, blood in the villages, blood, blood,
blood!" American newspapers were clearly
pushing the nation towards intervention in the
Cuban situation.

6. William Randolph Hearst

7. Hearst Castle

8. Joseph Pulitzer

9. The Yellow Kid

11. President William McKinley

12. Enrique Dupay de Lome

13. USS Maine

15. USS Maine after explosion

18. Commodore George Dewey

20. Emilio Aguinaldo

21. Admiral William Sampson

22. Rough Riders

23. Rough Riders

24. Teddy Roosevelt & Leonard Wood

25. John Hay “A Splendid Little War”