Which statements describe causes of the spanish-american war in 1898?

choose all answers that are correct.

americans believed that the spanish had sunk the battleship u. s.s. maine

yellow journalism stirred up pro-war fervor in the american public.

president mckinley declared war to his chances of winning reelection.

spanish authorities in cuba were accused of atrocities against the people.

Historically established causes of the the Spanish-American War (1898) are the sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine and a series of yellow journalism publications that criticized Spanish Cuba administration.

However, the historical importance of this war for American history, and the place the US occupies in the world after it, makes this historical event object of many reinterpretations.

Recent historians have called this conflict Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War in order to fully represent every major participant and interests at stake.

At that moment the world was going through a change in international power balance. For example, Great Britain and Spain were dying powers, seeing many colonies seeking independence; Japan, Germany and the US, in their turn, were growing and developing new international interests.

Because of the country's expansion and need for new consumer markets, and US's following attack on Cuba's autonomy after the end of the war (turning Cuba into a US'S protectorat and the Platt Amendment which denied Cuba's self-determination). That's why amongst the causes of the war one can not say the US seeked for Cuba's self-determination and right to be free from Spanish's atrocities.

Cuba being so close to the US and also representing an opportunity for new markets, it was in the US's interest that any kind of social revolution didn't take place there. The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine was probably no more than an excuse.

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.