The memories of American's own colonial past shaped the intervention of the Spanish occupied Cuban territory. It seemed that America represents and promotes democracy. There was a feeling of oppression of Cuba by Spain as there was once British exploited America. with this public opinion, America declared war on Spain but soon found a place of oppressor in Cuba.
People where I was living told me they didn’t even know about it. No, I wasn’t alive during the Spanish American War, but had great-grandparents, uncles and aunts who were. In that time period, there was no radio, television or internet. Newspapers and magazines were luxuries. The primary mail was the occasional delivery of the Sears “wish book.” So the war had come and gone before most people in the US even knew it existed. It was primarily a war for, by and of the elites on the East and West Coast.
American isolationist sentiment actually began immediately following the Revolutionary War and then increased drastically after WWI, when many American troops died for a war overseas.
