The Americans were brought into The Spanish and American War on February 15,1898. ... With this explosion, the navy used it by having a slogan ,"Remember the Maine," to get volunteers into the navy to help fight. We though that the Spanish were to blame for blowing up our ship. ... He even captured a couple of the Spanish soldiers and turned them over to the Americans. ... After we had freed Cuba and took it over ourselves from the Spanish we went to take the rest of Spans land. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

American pass tax free act on Hawaii sugar. ... So government pass the law that stop tax free on sugar. ... It was Spanish colony in new world. ... Spanish didn"t blow the ship. ... Spanish will also loose Porto Rico. ...

• Word Count: 721
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• Grade Level: High School

Citizenship of the Freed Slaves during and After the Reconstruction Slavery and the citizenship seem to be in contradiction of each other from top to bottom. ... In 1817, Spain signed a treaty agreeing to immediately end the slave trade north of the equator and south of the equator in 1820.   ... Citizenship of the Freed Slave is not only an event to waffle about, in actual fact its start of a new chapter in American history. "The Supreme Court decided the citizenship question for African Americans, slave and free, in Scott v. ... In the final draft of January 1, 1863, he was content to say...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
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After the war, American markets were filled with cheap British goods, which did not help the Americans. Henry Clay created the American System to try and help create a more self-sufficient economy, but one part of the country opposed each section of his plan. ... If it went through, it would tip the balance of slave states and free states. ... The US also faced problems with Spain, as their colonies in North America had begun to rebel. ...

• Word Count: 515
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

President Andrew Jackson showed his support in the then-unnamed expansionist philosophy by sending in troops to Florida when the local Indians and Spanish forces took offence to these intruding planters. ... Namely, the British in the north, the Spanish in the southeast and Mexico, the French control of New Orleans and the areas west of the Mississippi and the Native Americans of all areas. ... The US bought New Orleans, Louisiana and Florida from Spain and France. ...

• Word Count: 2913
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 In the book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, he uses ways as well as examples from history and other books to help readers become informed of their true United States history. ... After research, I learned that Christopher Columbus actually left Spain in search of Asia and India. ... Loewen also indicates that in some history books, historians describe slaves as not wanting to be free. They even claimed that they opposed those who tried to free them. ... The Unites States is know for being the one to help other countries in their time of need but sometimes the United State...

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America was aware that it needed to claim their share in all directions in the word when every nation was running faster than the other toward the free regions to have the power on it and dominate it and this is presented in the cartoon in document A. ... Read by the English, Germans, and Japanese, as well a by his fellow Americans, Mahan helped stimulate the naval race among the great powers that gained momentum around the turn of the century. ... The acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, our entry into the Spanish-American War and the resultant debate over the terms of the Treaty of Paris, th...

• Word Count: 1625
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There was nothing "free " about the establishment of the American nation (Greenberg 37). ... After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... This empowerment of women's rights helped trigger the first movements in the 1840s. ...

• Word Count: 1393
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Without the help of the Indians, the first European settlers would have no doubt died off. ... The Spanish were the first European settlers to come to the Indian-dominated North America. ... Harrad wrote, "free to return home once more as a citizen of this our America country" " (Noe and Wilson 19). ...

• Word Count: 2912
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School