This led to the American acquisition of colonies in Asia and Latin America. Unfortunately for America, The Philippines had long been fighting for its independence from Spain and was unwilling to submit to American authority. Americas acquisition, then, lead to The Philippine Insurrection, in which The Phillipines rose up again America to fight for independence (Lee, 2009). This was one of the first steps leading to the Spanish-American war. Yellow Journalists helped draw America even further into the war by demonizing the Spanish and running headlines about Spanish brutality on their covers. Yet they also exposed the real horrors of concentration camps in Cuba. Americans who often believed they had a duty to bring their morals to the rest of the world, became even more determined to civilize countries in which they saw evidence of brutality. (PBS, 1999) Yellow journalists like William Randolph Hurst helped to create a moral panic, by running stories about terrorized female prisoners, heroic rebellions, starving children and unjust executions in Cuba (Baker, 2001).
The main reasons, then, for the involvement of the United States in Latin America and Asia were a belief that American markets could no longer support its industry, a desire for new markets abroad, a need for more raw materials, and a moral panic caused by William Randolph Hurst, Joseph Pulitzer and their fellow yellow journalists.
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