The Spanish-American War took place in 1898 and resulted in the United States gaining control over the former colonies of Spain in the Caribbean and Pacific. The US lost 379 troops in combat and over 5,000 to disease. As a result of the war, Cuba would be declared independent in 1902.
The United States gained almost all of Spain's colonies, including the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Cuba was granted independence, but the United States imposed various restrictions on the new government, including prohibiting alliances with other countries.
On August 14, 1898, 11,000 ground troops were sent to occupy the Philippines. When U.S. troops began to take the place of the Spanish in control of the country, warfare broke out between U.S. forces and the Filipinos.
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The war resulted in three territorial conquests for the U.S., tens of thousands of Spanish and Cuban killed before American intervention, and the deaths of perhaps a quarter of a million Filipinos.
The Spanish-American War is significant in American history, as it saw the young nation emerge as a power on the world stage, though with a domain smaller than that of Britain or France. The war marked American entry into world affairs: over the course of the next century, the United States had a large hand in various conflicts around the world. The Panic of 1893 was over by this point, and the United States entered a lengthy and prosperous period of high economic growth, population growth, and technological innovation which would last through the 1920s.
The Spanish-American war marked the end of Spain as a superpower. The defeat paradoxically postponed the civil war that seemed imminent in 1898 and created a renaissance known as the Generation of 1898. The Spanish broke into civil war in the 1930s.
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answered by SARATH C 3
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Philippines, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam. It did no longer value plenty money, even if it destroyed u . s . of america's acceptance as a non-imperialist capability. That acceptance substitute into undeserved besides, because of the fact the US substitute into an aggressively imperialist capability from Day One.
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the Philippines, Guam and Porto Rico
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answered by chenelle o 2
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