The Spanish-American War

The Spanish-American war was a conflict between the United States and Spain over the independence of Cuba. This was a huge change for the United States in the matter of foreign affairs. The United States had previously stayed in a state of isolationism which is when a country does not involve its self in other counties affairs unless it directly involves them. President Roosevelt did not want for the United States to stay like that so he started to involve the United States in other countries affairs. The first big event the United States involved it's self with was with the independence of Cuba with Spain. The United States wanted the to get their freedom and independence so they helped Cube get what they wanted. In February of 1859 Cuba started
The United States did this because that was what George Washington had said to do. Washington's idea was for the United States to not involve her self with anyone else so the Unites States would not get it's self into trouble. Teddy Roosevelt and his group of volunteer soldiers called the "rough riders' landed on the coast of Santiago and slowly advanced to destroy Cervera's troops. Cervera led his troops to escape the attack of July 3rd. The Spanish-American war was so short and had so little loss of life that most people don't remember or even recognize the Spanish-American war as a war in history because it was so short and meaningless. Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy was to "carry a big stick but speak softly". Meaning build up a large army and navy to protect the United States if needed but don't instigate people and make yourself have to use it. Teddy Roosevelt's ultimate plan was to have a strong presence in international affairs when necessary for the United States to be involved. He would not get involved in anything and everything but he would when
So if someone were to want to attack the United States we would have a very large army and navy but they would not have been provoked by Roosevelt because he "spoke softly". After Roosevelt put in place his administration and new policies the United States got alot more imports and exports because we were involved and were helping the needs of oters in the foreign world. The United States started to get a good reputation with other countries because of it's involvment in the world's affairs. During the time of the United States' isolationism the import and export trade was not as high because the United States did not have that relationship with it's foregn neighbors so there was not that relationship or want to trade imports or exports with any