The United States wanted to expand to all corners of the world. Government officials spread in the media that the USS Maine had been attacked by the Spanish, but that information was also a false statement to make people believe that war had to be the solution to stop the Spanish. This angered Americans and once again the government sold us another war with the propaganda of patriotism. However, the real reason for causing another war was money. The profit from every war is huge for the United States, and to increase that profit, they had to get Americans to fight for the United States. An example of this is the “coal and iron trade which has not been as healthy” as in previous years. However, this had continually been a joy to the upper class; it was devastating for the poor, "who found themselves paying almost entirely" the entire cost of the war with high prices of sugar, taxes and other