The Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, as well as the formerly independent nation of Hawaii, became American possessions. ... The Spanish colonies in mainland North and South America became independent in the early 1800s, but Cuba and Puerto Rico remained Spanish. ... Landing on the southern coast, near the small city of Daiquiri, the Rough Riders were one of the first units to come ashore. ... On July 25, the US Army invaded Puerto Rico. ...

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The United States had an interest in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Panama Canal. ... When a German ship was spotted landing on the eastern coast of Mexico, American forces intervened and took the city of Veracruz against heavy resistance. ...

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The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. The years following the Civil War had seen a steady preparation for this. In 1867, for example, William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ...

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