Americans favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons except Spanish atrocities reported in the press Spanish atrocities reported in the press Sympathy for the Cuban patriots fighting for their freedom Sympathy for the Cuban patriots fighting for their freedom Fear that Spanish misrule menaced the Gulf of Mexico and the route for the proposed Panama Canal Fear that Spanish misrule menaced the Gulf of Mexico and the route for the proposed Panama Canal Outrage at the Spanish use of concentration camps