Spanish American War

I certainly believe that The United States was not justified to declare war against Spain during the 1800's. United States did not have a good enought reason to declare war on Spain. In fact, there were many reasons why United States declaring war on Spain was wrong and not just .
One out of many reasons that I think would be most unjust would be U.S using an excuse to declare war on Cuba. The United States sent troops and a battleship called U.S.S maine to protect U.S businessmen in Cuba. This battleship combusted and caused over 260 casualties. At this time, The United States had not enought evidence to declare war against Spain because Spanish officials investigated and found out that i was an internal combustion. This in fact was true, which meant the combustion was only an accident. This fact was proven 78 years too late.
The media in the United States made Spain look like a threatening country and made it seem like The United States needed revenge. Newspaper articles used yellow journalism and bias statements to get mroe viewers but this would just make citizens want to take action against the Spanish. The media played a big roll in this conflict between The United States and Spain. They made declaring war on Spain seem like the only justifying thing left to do which indeed was not.
Another major reason United States really declared war against Spain was because of Government interest in Cuba's economic potential. At that time Cuba had a great amount of sugar was produced. In my opinion I think that we only declared war on Spain because we wanted an alliance with Cuba to get to the sugar . We ended "helping" Cuba after the war by setting up military forces in Cuba because of their country was a mess . Another small reason why citizens thought it was a right and justifying thing to do at that time was because of the war Cuba and Spain was fighting. Many people thought it was right to help Cuba fight for freedom just like how America fought a Revolutionary war with England .
In conclusion, even though there were some reasons why declaring war on Spain was right . The major reasons why we declared war on Spain was mostly unjust. Declaring war on a country because of an mistaken accusation is wrong. Also being interested in a countries ability to grow a product America is interested in and declaring war is very unjust.