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Cuba declared independence from Spain because of the way Spain was treating the citizens.
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Spain shot the USS Maine while it was in the Havana harbor of cuba
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President McKinley asks Congress to go to war with Spain
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The first battle of the Spanish-American War.The US defeated the Spanish in Manila Bay.
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The Spanish and the Americans engaged in battle on San Juan Hill.The Spanish were using it as a base and the Americans wanted them to get off it.The US ends up capturing the hill
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US fought Spain with their navy.The US defeated Spain.
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The Spanish fought the Americans on land after they were defeated in the water.US won the battle.
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An armistice that ends the fighting but doesn't really end the war.
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US and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris.US got Cuba, Portugal,and much more.
