1. Puerto Rico
Rajvi Dalia
Block 3

3. General Nelson A. Miles
President William McKinley

5. U.S. control on Puerto Rico
• The U.S. wanted to control Puerto Rico for
these two reasons:
 It had the new markets, raw materials, and
cheaper labor that the U.S. greatly needed for
production
 The U.S. blamed the Spanish government for
the explosion of the USS Maine because of a
floating mine while in Cuba