The Actions Of The Spanish

Although there are many reasons why the Spanish-American war took place, the most important was Spain's resentment of Cuba's desire to also become an independent nation. Since Cuba was one of Spain's last territories, they were unwilling to allow independence. As a result, conflict between the two parties erupted. Since Cuba was smaller and less equipped to fight than Spain, their economy took a tumble. Due to the fact that the United States had a great deal of money invested in Cuba's sugar resources, many Americans felt the need to wage war. Additionally, there were separate events that caused anger to American Citizens. One such event was the destruction of a U.S. ship used to protect the American citizens in Cuba. Although the ship's

To what extent was Mexico’s independence from Spain a “full-scale assault on dependency”? This essay will investigate how the Mexican independence from Spain was only slightly a “full-scale assault on dependency”, due to several political and social conflicts. Firstly, Mexico remained a monarchy (but not under the control of Spain) after the insurgency. Secondly, there was still an official state religion in Mexico. Another reason is because social conflicts reduced the desire for independence .On the other hand, it assaulted dependency because there were some changes within the social hierarchy, and because Mexico was free from Spain.

Any student of history has come to recognize the fact that history is written by the victor and in lieu of this, research becomes essential to uncover where the truth lies. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, so ironically named, is a personal account for historical events leading up to the conquest of New Spain, formerly known as the City of Mexico. The author, Bernal Diaz, was a soldier of the conquering army who composed the document well after the events took place sometime between 1552 and 1557. Though the document did provide insight in regards to the victor’s perspective, it also served as a tool to rewrite the account of the conquered people.

In 1490 there was no such country as spain, yet within a century it had become the most powerful nation in europe and within another century had sunk to the status of a third rate power. Describe and analyze the major social economic and political reasons for spains rise and fall.

The Spanish American war started in 1898 and was a fight for Cuba’s independence which resulted in 379 American casualties in combat. The Spanish American War was justified because of the Monroe Doctrine, Correspondence between the United States and Spain, and the Platt Amendment, which were all created to protect American morals and freedom.

In Victors and the Vanquished, Schwartz poses the question of “How can we evaluate conflicting sources” (ix)? Through reading historical events such as the “Conquest of New Spain” there is an undeniably large amount of destruction of cultural material and bias testimonies of events recorded several years after they occurred. After analyzing the Spanish Conquest of Mesoamerica there is a debatable amount of evidence from the Mesoamericans and Spanish explanations of this event in history. The intentions of each explanation created a conflict to historians, art historians and anthropologists on which viewpoint holds to accuracy. There is also the issue of not only inaccuracies, but the motives behind each bias account. As many of these aspects are taken into consideration, interpreting each justification between both sides of history in Mesoamerica as a clash of ethnocentrism between two different cultures that causes an uncertainty of what actually happened in history.

While addressing his men, Hernan Cortez made grand promises of honor, greatness, and riches to those who did not abandon him on his mission to conquer the natives. He vowed that the war would “bring [them] fame” and “make [them]… the richest of all men who have crossed the seas” (Document 3). In this speech alone, the main, overarching reasons behind the Spanish conquest of the New World are unveiled. Cortez’s promises of gold, glory, and God spread through the masses, creating the major objectives for the conquistadors. These three motives influenced the Spaniards’ attitudes and shaped them into ones of bigotry and disrespect, that were later morphed into the protection of the native Indians.

The Effects of the Spanish-American War The Spanish American war had a lot of effects on America: United States became a world empire, gained imperial power, and also gained new technology. The Spanish-American War was a result of conflict between the United States and Spain. The war had a lot of impact on the United States. The United States wouldn’t be the same if we would have lost.

Cortés came not to the New World to conquer by force, but by manipulation. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, in the "Conquest of New Spain," describes how Cortés and his soldiers manipulated the Aztec people and their king Montezuma from the time they traveled from Iztapalaopa to the time when Montezuma took Cortés to the top of the great Cue and showed him the whole of Mexico and its countryside, and the three causeways which led into Mexico. Castillo's purpose for recording the mission was to keep an account of the wealth of Montezuma and Mexico, the traditions, and the economic potential that could benefit Cortés' upcoming conquest. However, through these recordings, we are able to see and understand Cortés'

The Spanish-American War began in 1898 when the U.S. Navy’s battleship Maine was destroyed accidentally. This act led to a four-month long war, in which the territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines were annexed by the United States. After said war, President Theodore Roosevelt gave support to a Panamanian rebellion. This rebellion was successful giving the citizens of Panama freedom from Columbia and the right to a democracy. In return American’s gained total control of the Panama Canal, which allowed its navy to traverse it. This is one of the many examples of the United States expressing itself as a world power, in this case over Columbia. These historical events have been expressed by the political cartoon, “Columbia’s

According to Bartolome De Las Casa, who was there when the Spanish came, he said that the Spanish acted like wild beasts, that hadn’t eaten for days. The Spaniards are killing, terrorizing, torturing, and destroying the lives of the people of Hispaniola. They came to this new island with brand new methods of torture. Columbus did not even think what he was doing was wrong. He thought people that disagreed with him were wrong.

After the Civil War, the United States Navy had been completely demobilized. It had commenced the destruction of many warships utilized by the Union and had also stopped the production of new ships. Naval powers in Europe had far surpassed the United States Navy as new and advanced technologies were being put to use. The nation’s lack of overseas coaling stations kept the United States attached to the use of sail power. This was not efficient in order to protect American interests overseas. The image of the United States was projected through its lack of an effective Navy. The public was so engulfed with other intercontinental issues, such as western expansion, that the Navy was not an important asset. The U.S. finally came to its senses in 1890’s when the first battleships, including the U.S.S. Maine, was commissioned with steam power and a steel hull. As the Navy began to redevelop, tensions between the Spanish and United States also began to develop. In 1873 Spanish authorities in Cuba executed 53 men who had been smuggling guns to Cuban revolutionaries in the steamer Virginius. Many of those executed were American citizens including the Captain of the Virginius Joseph Fry, a Naval Academy graduate. The weak assembly of a Navy to intimidate the Spanish frustrated those who advocated for a stronger Navy. America had sided with Cuba in its effort to fight for independence from Spain. America had begun to portray the Spanish as ruthless people holding Cuba’s independence

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"American imperialism in 1898 was not a sudden abandonment of anti-colonial tradition but was a logical extension of commercial expansion, something the US had been doing throughout its history" (SparkNotes: The Spanish American War, 1898-1901,: Effects of the Treaty). President McKinley was not interested in wars of conquest or of territorial aggression. His interest in expansion was "to make the United States first in international commerce and as a means to implement its humanitarian and democratic goals" (Faragher, J., Buhle, M. J., & Armitage, S. H. ,2008, Out of Many, A History of the American People, 6th ed., Vol. 2, p. 561). McKinley would eventually be forced to act in a humanitarian effort for the people of Cuba and to protect

Spain has always been a melting pot of ethnicity and culture. From the Celts and Visigoths that came from the north to the Africans and Arabs from the south to the Romans from the East, empires, kingdoms, and tribes all over the world have recognized and tried to take advantage of the benefits of Spain. War, conquest, and reconquest are frequent throughout the entire history of Spain, and the history of Moors in Spain is no exception. It began in the year 711 when the Moors first crossed over to the Iberian Peninsula, until their expulsion from Granada in 1492 which marks the end of the Reconquista, they influenced the native Iberians in many ways including culture and religion.