5. What caused an increase in tension
between the United States and Spain?
• 1. In 1895 civil war broke out in Cuba between
Spain and the Cubans
• 2. The conflict was described by Senator
Redfield Proctor of Vermont as bloody and brutal
• 3. Newspapers (particularly those owned by
William Randolph Hearst) reported the brutality
of the Spanish General Weyler in graphic and
often biased terms.
• The New York Journal reports "...blood on the
roadsides, blood in the villages, blood, blood,
blood!" American newspapers were clearly
pushing the nation towards intervention in the
Cuban situation.
