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Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April. American newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction. Although the Maine explosion was not a direct cause, it served as a catalyst that accelerated the events leading up to the war. -
The U.S. Congress adopted resolutions that declared Cuba independent from Spain and authorized U.S. military intervention to compel the Spanish to leave Cuba. -
I pick this title spanish-american war because my home town Puerto Rico is involved with the peace of treaty of Paris. Now Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States and we have benefits and they gained good land to grow and distribute vegetables, sugar cane and other agricultural things. Also we have some benefits we don’t have all an I know that in this time of days people from Puerto Rico wants to be an independent country but we cannot do it ourselves we do not have the money.
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It all started because Americans though that Spanish people had to do with the explosion of USS Maine. The war started but they didn't finished instead they had the pace treaty of Paris.
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Commodore George Dewey led an American attack against the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay in the Philippines, a Spanish colony. The Spanish fleet was destroyed, but the American ships were unharmed. Only eight Americans were slightly wounded in the skirmish. -
American troops landed at Guanica Harbor, Puerto Rico.Three days later the island surrendered. The land offensive began on July 25, when 1,300 infantry soldiers led by Major General Nelson A. Miles disembarked off the coast of Guánica. After controlling the first skirmish, the Americans advanced to Coamo, where they engaged Puerto Rican and Spanish troops in battle. -
All hostilities ended by the terms of a protocol. The terms ceded Cuba and Guam, one of the Mariana Islands, to the United States. The U.S. also purchased the Philippine Islands. -
he Treaty of Paris (1898) was the peace treaty signed on December 10, 1898 by Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish-American War. The terms of the treaty also ended the age of Spanish imperialism and established the United States as a world power. The Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898, was a peace agreement between Spain and the United States that ended the Spanish-American War.