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Sinking of the USS Maine
-The main was sent to Cuba to protect american citizens write Cuban revolution were fighting span independence
-The newspaper writers blamed the explosion
-many Americans saw this as a chance to seize other overseas possessions and begin building an american empire. -
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Spanish American War
-was a conflict between united states and Spain
-the war was to end Spanish colonial rule in the u.s. to be an empire
-it was in the western pacific and Latin america like Philippines,Samoa,Guam,wake island,and Cuba
-congress support a modernization program that would make american navy effective and strong