Spanish-American War-The US Becomes a World Power

“Spanish- American War-The US Becomes a World Power” “ goes over the events from the 1890’s that led to and ended with the Spanish American War in 1898. Over half the slides concern the causes of the war, the rest look at the events of the war and the results. This is an event that the kids seem to know almost nothing about. I try to present this as “why was there a war?” Would it happen today? “ ..and that seems to work.
“Spanish American War-US…… “ consists of 60 plus slides, including images, maps, charts, primary documents, and student text notes for class. Teacher notes and extra information are included on “note view “for many slides. “This Presentation was used in class, tweaking it over the last few years. This works and keeps the kids attention.

Causes of the Spanish American War ( 36 slides)
Cuban Revolution
Yellow Journalism
The De Lome Letter
Nationalism- US “War Fever”
Destruction of the USS Maine

Teacher notes and stories for class through out the presentation-
Slides with the “teacher Notes” icon will have information-
go to Menu- VIEW- NORMAL ( all the way to the left.)
Notes are always at the bottom of the slide in edit mode( not in Slide Show Mode)

15 Assessment test/ quiz questions based on the slides
Primary Documents –Examine Yellow Journalism Headlines and Political Cartoons
As with all my Presentations- used in class.
Thank you
Doug Stuart - Hook Them on History