The war could have been unjust by all of the manipulation and the policies used that caused the war to start. Here are some of the most relevant:
Yellow journalism played an important part in the Spanish-American War because of how it served as a motivator for the American people. Because of the news working out what would cause the most buzz and selling stories of an accusatory and untrue nature, those who read them got the impression that the newspapers wanted them to have: That the war should be supported and that the Spanish were in the wrong.
More often than not, these stories had very little, if any, facts in them because they were meant to scare and draw support instead of keeping citizens in the know of the latest war events.
Manifest Destiny was a U.S. policy that the spread of the U.S. across the American continents was justified and unavoidable. It was not a good policy, and it was one of the main factors of the start of the Spanish-American War. The U.S. took control of Hawaii to make moves to take Guam and the Philippines to increase U.S. territories. Because of the aggression toward their colonies, Spain decided to retaliate, thus starting the Spanish-American War. Yellow Journalism ties into this because its purpose was to get the American people to rally behind the idea of manifest Destiny.
In short, this war didn’t make sense and it should not have been allowed to go through, because there was so little base for it to start on other than poor journalistic integrity and a ship sinking in an undetermined way. The war was unjust, as it had no real important reason to exist or be fought.
Yellow journalism played an important part in the Spanish-American War because of how it served as a motivator for the American people. Because of the news working out what would cause the most buzz and selling stories of an accusatory and untrue nature, those who read them got the impression that the newspapers wanted them to have: That the war should be supported and that the Spanish were in the wrong.
More often than not, these stories had very little, if any, facts in them because they were meant to scare and draw support instead of keeping citizens in the know of the latest war events.
Manifest Destiny was a U.S. policy that the spread of the U.S. across the American continents was justified and unavoidable. It was not a good policy, and it was one of the main factors of the start of the Spanish-American War. The U.S. took control of Hawaii to make moves to take Guam and the Philippines to increase U.S. territories. Because of the aggression toward their colonies, Spain decided to retaliate, thus starting the Spanish-American War. Yellow Journalism ties into this because its purpose was to get the American people to rally behind the idea of manifest Destiny.
In short, this war didn’t make sense and it should not have been allowed to go through, because there was so little base for it to start on other than poor journalistic integrity and a ship sinking in an undetermined way. The war was unjust, as it had no real important reason to exist or be fought.