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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (Spanish: Guerra hispano-americana or Guerra hispano-

estadounidense; Filipino: Digmaang Espanyol-Amerikano) was fought between
the United States and Spain in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal
explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in
the Cuban War of Independence. U.S. acquisition of Spain's Pacific possessions led to
its involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately in the Philippine–American
War.[14]
The main issue was Cuban independence. Revolts had been occurring for some years in
Cuba against Spanish rule. The U.S. later backed these revolts upon entering the
Spanish–American War. There had been war scares before, as in the Virginius Affair in
1873, but in the late 1890s, U.S. public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propaganda
led by newspaper publishers such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph
Hearst which used yellow journalism to call for war.[15][16] The business community across
the United States had just recovered from a deep depression and feared that a war would
reverse the gains. It lobbied vigorously against going to war.
The United States Navy armored cruiser USS Maine had mysteriously sunk in Havana
Harbor; political pressures from the Democratic Party pushed the administration
of Republican President William McKinley into a war that he had wished to avoid.
President McKinley signed a joint Congressional resolution demanding Spanish
withdrawal and authorizing the President to use military force to help Cuba gain
independence on April 20, 1898.[17] In response, Spain severed diplomatic relations with
the United States on April 21. On the same day, the U.S. Navy began a blockade of
Cuba.[18] On April 23, Spain stated that it would declare war if the U.S. forces invaded its
territory. On April 25, Congress declared that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain
had de facto existed since April 21, the day the blockade of Cuba had begun. [19] The
United States sent an ultimatum to Spain demanding that it surrender control of Cuba,
but due to Spain not replying soon enough, the United States assumed Spain had ignored
the ultimatum and continued to occupy Cuba

With the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines to the
United States.[1] The interim U.S. military government of the Philippine Islandsexperienced a period of
great political turbulence, characterised by the Philippine–American War. Beginning in 1901, the
military government was replaced by a civilian government—the Insular Government of the Philippine
Islands—with William Howard Taft serving as its first Governor-General. From 1901 to 1906 there also
existed a series of revolutionary governmentsthat lacked significant international diplomatic
recognition.
American settlement in the Philippines began during the Spanish period,

*The history of the Philippines from 1521 to 1898, also known as the Spanish colonial period,
was a period during which Spain controlled the Philippine islands as the Captaincy General of the
Philippines, initially under New Spain until Mexican independence in 1821, which gave Madrid direct
control over the area. It was also known as Spanish East Indies to the colonialists. It started with the
arrival in 1521 of European explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for Spain, which heralded the period
when the Philippines was a colony of the Spanish Empire, and ended with the outbreak of
the Philippine Revolution in 1898, which marked the beginning of the American colonial era of
Philippine history.

The Philippine–American War,[11] also referred to as the Filipino-American War, the Philippine
War, the Philippine Insurrection or the Tagalog Insurgency[12][13] (Filipino: Digmaang Pilipino-
Amerikano; Spanish: Guerra Filipino-Estadounidense), was an armed conflict between the First
Philippine Republic and the United States that lasted from February 4, 1899, to July 2, 1902.[1] While
Filipino nationalists viewed the conflict as a continuation of the struggle for independence that began
in 1896 with the Philippine Revolution, the U.S. government regarded it as an insurrection.[14] The
conflict arose when the First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the Treaty of Paris under
which the United States took possession of the Philippines from Spain, ending the short Spanish–
American War.[15]