1. Describe the Spanish American War including how the United States became involved. What was gained by the United States a result of the war?
The Spanish-American War (1898) was a battle between the United States and the Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and brought about United States acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The war started in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which started in February of 1895. The Cuban clash was harmful to United States interests in the island, which were evaluated at $50 million, and relatively finished United States exchange with Cuban ports, regularly esteemed at $100 million every year. On the extremist side, the war was pursued to a great …show more content…
declared war on the twenty-fifth, which was made retroactive to April 21st. The ensuring war was pathetically one-sided, since Spain had readied neither its armed force nor its naval force for a far-off war with the formidable power of the United States. George Dewey drove a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, the year 1898, and devastated the anchored Spanish fleet in a relaxed morning engagement that cost just seven American seamen injured. Manila itself was involved by U.S. troops by August. By the Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, surrendered Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American War was a significant turning point in the history of both antagonists moment ever. Spain's annihilation conclusively turned the country's attention from its abroad pioneer adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a procedure that prompted both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-required economic improvement in …show more content…
Roosevelt's series of initiatives designed to stimulate the economy and create "shovel-ready" jobs to address the persistent realities of the Great Depression, a time in which millions of Americans had lost their jobs. When he first entered office, Roosevelt did not have a set plan for improving America's situation. His New Deal would be simultaneously conservative and liberal with aspects of socialism for experimentation. These socialist undertones created some concern about the direction America was heading in. The troubled economy and a Democratic majority in Congress gave Roosevelt the influence he would need to push his New Deal forward. The first issue that Roosevelt needed to address was the crisis of the American banking system. The problem was that due to a lack of consumer confidence, people were making more withdrawals than deposits. And like so many things, there was an inverse relationship between exceeding consumer withdrawals and economic stability. Roosevelt moved for a "bank holiday" during which all bank business would be closed, this was in order to allow the banks to stabilize and reorganize from the fallout. Meanwhile, FDR worked to boost consumer confidence through his weekly fireside chats; specifically on banks he reassured people that their money would be safe in banks without the need to consolidate it all. Next came the Emergency Banking Act, designed primarily to protect large banks from
The Spanish-American War (1898) was a battle between the United States and the Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and brought about United States acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The war started in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which started in February of 1895. The Cuban clash was harmful to United States interests in the island, which were evaluated at $50 million, and relatively finished United States exchange with Cuban ports, regularly esteemed at $100 million every year. On the extremist side, the war was pursued to a great …show more content…
declared war on the twenty-fifth, which was made retroactive to April 21st. The ensuring war was pathetically one-sided, since Spain had readied neither its armed force nor its naval force for a far-off war with the formidable power of the United States. George Dewey drove a U.S. naval squadron into Manila Bay in the Philippines on May 1, the year 1898, and devastated the anchored Spanish fleet in a relaxed morning engagement that cost just seven American seamen injured. Manila itself was involved by U.S. troops by August. By the Treaty of Paris, Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, surrendered Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American War was a significant turning point in the history of both antagonists moment ever. Spain's annihilation conclusively turned the country's attention from its abroad pioneer adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a procedure that prompted both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-required economic improvement in …show more content…
Roosevelt's series of initiatives designed to stimulate the economy and create "shovel-ready" jobs to address the persistent realities of the Great Depression, a time in which millions of Americans had lost their jobs. When he first entered office, Roosevelt did not have a set plan for improving America's situation. His New Deal would be simultaneously conservative and liberal with aspects of socialism for experimentation. These socialist undertones created some concern about the direction America was heading in. The troubled economy and a Democratic majority in Congress gave Roosevelt the influence he would need to push his New Deal forward. The first issue that Roosevelt needed to address was the crisis of the American banking system. The problem was that due to a lack of consumer confidence, people were making more withdrawals than deposits. And like so many things, there was an inverse relationship between exceeding consumer withdrawals and economic stability. Roosevelt moved for a "bank holiday" during which all bank business would be closed, this was in order to allow the banks to stabilize and reorganize from the fallout. Meanwhile, FDR worked to boost consumer confidence through his weekly fireside chats; specifically on banks he reassured people that their money would be safe in banks without the need to consolidate it all. Next came the Emergency Banking Act, designed primarily to protect large banks from