Foreign Policy

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to help oppressed nations, and in turn to rule them, to embrace the democratic government. Revolts and conspiracies against the Spanish regime had dominated Cuban political life throughout the 19th century, and the Cuban struggle for independence became an active revolution in 1895 after Spain failed to institute reforms promised to the Cuban people in 1878. In response to the fighting Spanish troops drove much of the population into confinement camps, and thousands died of disease and malnutrition. The reports of Spanish cruelties shocked the United States, and many Americans, among them McKinley, sympathized with the Cuban cause and saw the need for intervention.
In Hawaii, Cleveland was confronted by a rebellion organized by white businessmen. The rebellion began after Queen Liliuokalani, who was opposed to the growing influence of American-owned industries on the islands, chose to disregard a constitution that the businessmen had forced her brother to accept when he was king. ...

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