Spanish American War Consequences. American policy makers were forced to consider a greater global. Consequences of the war.
The war resulted in a swift American victory leading to the addition of multiple territories. One consequence is that the United States became a colonial power. Nevertheless President McKinleys expansionist policies were supported by the American public who seemed more than willing to accept the blessings and curses of their new expanding empire.
Today that organization is defunct but it left an heir in the Sons of SpanishAmerican War Veterans created in 1937 at the 39th National Encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans.
Thousands of American soldiers in Cuba and the Philippines were already suffering from malaria and yellow fever but due to their food they got worse. The Spanish-American war had many factors that caused it such as the rebellion in Cuba and Yellow Journalism and it had many effects after the battles in the Philippines Cuba and Puerto Rico. Sympathy for Cubans as near neighbors fighting to gain their independence. The victory by the United States in the Spanish-American War had several consequences.