This island was also ceded by Spain to the U.S. after the Spanish-American War.
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B
Prescribing the rules and conduct to be observed with respect to Negroes and other slaves of this territory.
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C
The indepence desire of this country was the start point of the Spanish-American War.
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G
An army under Gen. Shafter landed to this harbor and slowly advanced on the city in an effort to force Adm. Cervera’s fleet out of it.
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H
This general led the battle that effectively ended the Spanish-American War.
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I
The popular demand for U.S. intervention increased after the unexplained sinking in Havana harbor of the American battleship USS ___.
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J
Last name of the successor of Abraham Lincoln who led the U.S. during the Reconstruction era.
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M
Commodore William Dewey led a U.S. naval squadron to this Philippine bay and destroyed the Spanish fleet in only 2 hours.
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N
Spain’s brutally repressive measures to halt the rebellion were graphically portrayed for the U.S. public by several sensational ____.
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O
“Thus ever to tyrants!” was the Virginia state ___.
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P
In this city, it was signed a treaty where Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20 million.
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R
Part of the Reconstruction where newly enfranchised Black people gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress.
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S
Kingdom that ran into a war against the US in 1898, war that ended their colonial rule in the Americas.
Contains
T
The effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States.
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U
In less than a decade, reactionary forces—including the Ku Klux Klan—would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in a violent backlash that restored white ____ in the South.
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V
The USS Maine had been sent to protect U.S. citizens and property after anti-Spanish rioting in ____.
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W
Last name of a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
