On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.
The Spanish-American War was a conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898, that ended Spanish colonial rule in the ...
When the Spanish-American War was declared, thousands of U.S. volunteers entered training camps in the southeastern United States. Though the surgeon general advised soldiers to maintain sanitary ...
the United States stood poised to enter the 20th century as an imperial power. Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens, William J., 1870-1938. Library of Congress Congress ...