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The last theory has been written about by the likes of William Williams and Walter LaFeber After the Cuban population stated to revolt against the Spaniards whose rule they were under rumors started to spread as to the treatment that was being given to the Cuban people To sum up After the uprising the Spanish sent General Weyler Another is regarding a response to the flood of American sympathy and anger created by the General Weyler set about crushing the rebellion with a simple philosophy However some of the reasonable and some of the most accepted theories deal with the propaganda and exploitation by the yellow press regarding the So an independent friendly nation in need of supplies so that it could rebuild that was only ninety miles to our south was a opportunity that may have been to hard to pass over The The last reason was advocated by William Williams and Walter LaFeber was that the US enters into this conflict with the intension of expanding our foreign markets so that we may more profitably sell the goods that were being produced in our booming economy The ports of Europe alone could not take in all the products that the United States was churning out The theories that seem to be not necessarily the most accepted but are the most highly regarded are the ones dealing with an American response to Cuba These camps were so vile and unsanitary that the when the news reached the American public they demanded that the US step in to stop this inhumane behavior These men attribute the US forging into the war to the need for the US to have as many over seas markets to sell the goods that our booming industry was turning out at record volumes These stories This is also a reason that acquiring the Hawaiian Islands is important because once we ran out of ports that were near us we would have to expand farther and farther over seas and ships back then would be very hard pressed to make it all the way to the Asian mainland with out a recoaling Varied viewpoints have arisen as to why the Unites States entered into this specific endeavor most of which have some validity With this new found philosophy he went about confine most of the previously free Cuban population to razor wire enclosed concentration camps also theories regarding war because of purely economic needs did such a good job of creating a society of war hawks that some believe that the entire war could have been avoided if the tabloids had stayed out of it it was believed that many factors came into play when figuring out what exactly led to the Spanish American War policy that was propagated by the war between media moguls William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer the less people there are around to betray us the less people we need to fight to regain control over the colony we needed closer and larger markets for our products American War S S S Maine S Maine were amplified and exploited by the tabloids of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer When the Cuban population revolted in 1895 it set in motion the next war in American history that is known as the Spanish s along with many others including the destruction of the U s of the Cubans and the destruction of the U s scorched earth campaign scorched earth yellow journalism yellow press.
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