Patriotism In The Spanish American War

In American History, one must always be a good patriotic man or woman. In order to be that ideal good American, one must love their land and god over everything. Time came around and introduced the Progressive era into America, a time of greater change. However, change is portrayed different between the people and the government, different ideas, approaches, and battles to fight. To prove that one loves its home he or she must be willing to give up anything for their land, meaning their lives or even their children 's lives too. On a daily basis, we are being fed fictional stories that our government create for their own beneficial interest. The press lets these fictional stories hit the headlines, and therefore should believe what they say for being our only reliable source. With the government and the press being a tag-team duo, we are simply left handicapped and have only but to listen and get fooled by their desired decision

The United States wanted to spread around all the corners of the world. The government officials spread around the media that the USS Maine had been attacked by the Spaniards however, that information had also been a false statement to make the people believe that a war had to be the solution to stop the Spaniards. This made Americans angry and yet again the government sold us another war with propaganda about patriotism. Nevertheless, the real reason behind provoking another war was money. The profit from every war is huge to the United States, and to make that profit larger, they had to make Americans want to fight for the US. An example of this is the “Coal and Iron trade which have not been so healthy” as the past previous years. This had been continuously a joy for the upper class , however; it was devastating for the poor, “which found themselves paying almost entirely” the whole cost of war with high prices for sugar, taxes and other