Nationalist rebellion in Cuba against Spanish authority known as the Cuban Independence Movement. It began with the futile Ten Years' War and ended with the involvement of the United States, which put an end to Spanish colonial rule in the Americas (see Spanish-American War).
Spanish American War
American imperialism refers to measures aiming at spreading the United States' political, economic, and cultural power beyond its borders.
Rough Riders
During the Cuban Revolution, Maine was dispatched to Havana Harbor to safeguard American interests. On the evening of February 15, 1898, she exploded and sunk, killing 268 men. The ship was sunk by an external explosion from a mine, according to a U.S. Navy board of inquiry in 1898.
Spain gives the US its former territories
The Spanish-American War, fought between the United States and Spain in 1898, ended Spanish colonial power in the Americas and resulted in the United States gaining territory in the western Pacific and Latin America.
The 1st United States Volunteers Cavalry, was one three such regiments established in 1898 for the Spanish–American War, was dubbed the Rough Riders because it was the only one to experience battle.
On December 10, 1898, representatives from Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris that recognized Cuba's independence, gave the United States Puerto Rico and Guam, and authorized the winning nation to buy the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million.
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