spanish american war
...usiness interest, in Cuba were in danger. At the time, America had around $ 100 million invested in Cuba in one way or another and $ 50 million in trade. Yellow journalists, with illustrations of crops burning and other economic damaging pictures caused panic. Strategically, Spain was painted out to be a big group of gorillas, a group brutes by yellow journalism. We didn’t want to have them in our backyard, they were a threat to us. Though public opinion was already with Cuba, and concerns over our investments already existed, and we didn’t want Spain in our backyard initially, the reporters and newspapers that were considered yellow journalism helped push along paranoia that already existed and pushed America into war with Spain. 4. Theodore Roosevelt’s methods of acquiring the Panama Canal can bee labeled controversial, but not wrong. For hundreds of years countries have used their military presence to get their point across. Like the conquistadors of Spain and the Courer Du Bois of France, and the British when American colonists showed signs of revolts. Roosevelt, a strong imperialistic republican took the canal as politically safe as he could, going to Britain, then France, followed with the Hay-Banau Varilla treaty. But when he started to come upon dead ends, he looked toward the old fashioned Europeon ways. Roosevelts actions by helping with the Panama Revolution was imperialistic, but every major country would have done the same. 8 Woodrow Wilson was a terrific president economically and politically during his first four years for president. Staying out of Europeon affairs helped America ...