08 Aug The Spanish American War between the United States and Spain lasted for just 15 weeks during the spring and summer of 1898
The Spanish American War between the United States and Spain lasted for just 15 weeks during the spring and summer of 1898. By this time, Spain was declining as an empire and held just a few colonies among Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. The United States, on the other hand, was on the verge of world domination. The war began as an intervention into the Spanish-Cuban conflict, a nationalist revolt by the Cubans. The fact that the United States emerged from the conflict with a set of colonies extending from Puerto Rico to the Philippines has created a wide range of interpretations about whether the American decision to intervene in Cuba was motivated by the desire to engage in empire-building or whether the decisions to start the war and acquire an empire were made separate from each other.
Here are the Essay Requirements:
Make sure you read the essay prompt carefully. Thoroughly and accurately answering all the parts of the essay prompt below is perhaps the most critical part of your essay.
As a historian you are to analyze three or more factors or events that ultimately lead to the Spanish American war. In your argument be sure to consider the political, economic and ideological influences. Next, evaluate the ultimate outcome of the war for the Americans, the Spanish and for the Cubans.
You must include a thesis statement and you must underline your thesis statement.
The essay must include a thesis/argument based on evidence that answers the essay prompt question. The thesis should be in one or two sentences long, and needs to be engaging and though provoking.
Length Requirement: To receive full marks/exceeds standards your paper needs to be four (4) pages or longer.
- Primary Sources: To receive full marks/exceeds standards you must use four (4) primary sources documents or more from the list below and use them as evidence. Keeping in mind the essay prompt, review the primary sources below. Select at least four (4) primary sources to support your thesis. You are required to use at least five primary sources to support your thesis and but you are encouraged to use more. In the essay be sure to explain how/why these four primary source documents support your thesis. Make sure you show evidence of thorough knowledge of the sources and period in which the sources were created.
Note: This assignment is intended to provoke critical thinking on your part. Answer the prompt above by relying on your analysis of the history using the course materials and primary sources provided below. You do not need to do any additional outside research. However, if you want to use an outside secondary source it needs to be a scholarly peer review article or book published by a university press. All outside secondary or primary sources need to be approved by the professor. The deadline to have your secondary or primary sources approved by the professor is 2/27. But once again you do not need to do outside research, you only need to use at least four (4) of the Primary Sources below. Students who utilize unapproved not peer-reviewed sources will have points deducted from their essay. But once again you do not need to do outside research, the course materials and primary sources should be enough to write your essay.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.16004100/?sp=2%2…
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/american-imperia…
http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-emp…
http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-emp…
http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-emp…
