4. Henry M. Teller
Sponsored an amendment
to the Joint Resolution for
war with Spain
U.S. had no intention of
taking political control of
Cuba
Involved
in political
disseminations of the time
5. Joseph Pullitzer
Actively promoted “war
fever within the U.S. with
bold headlines
Printed exaggerated and
false accounts of Spanish
atrocities in Cuba
New York World
6. Valeriano Weyler
In response to Cuban
nationalist revolts, Spain
sent Weyler to suppress
insurgency
Created
“reconcentration” camps
for Cubans
Nicknamed “the Butcher”
by yellow journalists
7. Leonard Wood
Commander of the 2nd Brigade,
Cavalry Division, V Corps (which
included the Rough Riders)
led brigade to a famous victory at
Kettle Hill and San Juan Heights.
Appointed the Military Governor
of Cuba from 1899–1902
Used his medical experience to
institute improvements to the
medical and sanitary conditions in
Cuba.
8.
9. Conflicting Opinions
"The guns that thundered off
“And we cannot put a land Manila and Santiago left us
force on the soil of Cuba to echoes of glory, but they also
drive out the Spaniards and to left us a legacy of duty. If we
establish an independent and drove out a medieval tyranny
a "stable" government there, only to make room for savage
without dooming many more anarchy we had better not
young Americans to die, not have begun the task at all. It is
only on the battle-field, but, worse than idle to say that we
worse than that, in the hospitals have no duty to perform, and
of that unwholesome country. can leave to their fates the
American mothers, too, may islands we have conquered.
know Cuba as the place to Such a course would be the
which their valiant sons go, course of infamy. It would be
never to return.” followed at once by utter
chaos in the wretched islands
~Carl Schurz themselves.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
