One cause of the Sp.Am. War has the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. The US believed that Spain had blown it up.
Yellow Journalism was another big part of the Sp.Am. War.
THE EXPLOSION OF THE U.S.S. MAINE!!!$5000 dollar reward for whoever discovers what filthy scum would choose to BLOW UP our beloved ship! By: William Randolph Hearst.
WHO DID IT?!?
Also Spain had colonized Cuba and was mistreating the Cubans.
CUBA
SPAIN
Like this:
WE DON'T DESERVE THIS!!
Even Mckinley, a man against war, was starting to get angry.
It's like Spain wants to go to war! We must fight for what is right! America deserves to have Cuba and the Philippines! They also can't blow up our ships!
These are all reasons America went to war with Spain. But, if I was America, I don't think I would've gone to war with Spain. It actually turns out that they didn't blow up the U.S.S. Maine! It was just something that spilled that caused it to implode.