You can go watch another video about the controversy of whether that was our own doing or if it was the Spaniards doing. But what this is going to mean is the Spanish-American War. Yellow journalism, jingoism, nationalism is running through the course of the veins of the American empire and we want ourselves some Cuba. Not that there weren't anti-imperialists and I think this is an important point to make. As we go into Cuba there's something called the Teller Amendment which is very democratic orientated that we're not going to control Cuba. That we're fighting for freedom. And then immediately after the war there's something called the Platt Amendment which is really kind of a puppet amendment.