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1. Was the Spanish American War in fact a "splendid little war"? What was splendid about it?
Yes it was in fact a “splendid little war”. There were a few things that made the Spanish American Was receive that nickname. The war lasted only 115 days and the death outcome was far less than any other war. The United States gained Puerto Rick as well as Guam and other islands in the pacific. In the book it stated that “If ever there were a good war, it was the Spanish-American war. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

2. What impact did the "yellow press" have on American opinion and expansion in the 1890's?
The “yellow press” was sometimes called “The Newspaper War” because of the scandal stories that the Yellow journalism brought. The rage was started by the media were the events of Feb 1898 which eliminated the events in Feb and the two months following until the war began. America declared war on the Spanish and then two months later the sinking of the “Maine” occurred. Americans thought that the Spanish where the ones that sunk the ship. Theodore Roosevelt stated the sinking “an act of dirty treachery on the part of the Spaniards”. He claimed that the United States needs a war. Without any hard evidence The Yellow Journalism published the newspaper blaming the Spanish for the sinking of the Maine. In 1976 there was a full study done on the sinking of the “Maine” was an accident; the result of the explosion happened by a fire in its coal bunker. The impact that the yellow press had on America was that it influenced and provoked them to do things.

Tindall, George Brown and Shit, David Emory. America: A Narrative History. Vol 2, 8th ed. WW Norton: New York, 2010. Print

1. Discuss the reasons for the emergence of an agrarian movement in the late nineteenth century. Analyze the successes and failures of the Grange, Farmer’s Alliance, and the Populist movement.

The Americans farmers where faced with many problems in the 19th



Cited: Tindall, George Brown and Shi, David Emory. America: A Narrative History. Vol 2, 8th ed. WW Norton:New York, 2010. Print.

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