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There is a popular misconception that after the U.S. invaded and kicked the Spanish out in 1898 “free” Cuba was a paradise. amidst corruption and graft to rival that of any government in history.
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The election of 1898 was one of the most significant elections in the history of North Carolina. The effects of the campaign, and many of the issues that were raised, would last long into the twentieth century.
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Following the defeat Spain in the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States acquired overseas colonies in the Caribbean and the Pacific. In its new status as an imperial power, the United States pursued a series of policies designed to protect American territories and aggressively expand its international commercial interests. These policies included the promotion of the “Open Door” policy in China and the attachment of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that formally announced the intention to use military force to defend the Western Hemisphere against European incursions. At the same time, President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal, which would have profound economic implications for American trade, and engaged in great power diplomacy in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War. In just over a decade, the United States had redefined its national and international interests to include a large overseas military presence, overseas possessions, and direct engagement in setting priorities in international affairs.
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By the Treaty of Paris (signed Dec. 10, 1898), Spain renounced all claim to Cuba, ceded Guam and Puerto Rico to the United States, and transferred sovereignty over the Philippines to the United States for $20,000,000. The Spanish-American War was an important turning point in the history of both antagonists. Spain's defeat decisively turned the nation's attention away from its overseas colonial adventures and inward upon its domestic needs, a process that led to both a cultural and a literary renaissance and two decades of much-needed economic development in Spain. The victorious United States, on the other hand, emerged from the war a world power with far-flung overseas possessions and a new stake in international politics that would soon lead it to play a determining role in the affairs of Europe.
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![Roosevelt] musters out of the U.S. Army after the required 30 day quarentine period at Montauk, Long Island, in 1898.](http://retrieverimages.lycos.com/images/1/8/9/1898/i/000.jpg)
On August 14, 1898, 11,000 ground troops were sent to occupy the Philippines. When U.S. troops began to take the place of the Spanish in control of the country, warfare broke out between U.S. forces and the Filipinos. See Philippine-American War.
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The Spanish-Cuban conflicts of the 1890’s, culminating in the Spanish-American War of 1898, had not been kind to Cuba. The island was essentially in ruins economically, 80% of the sugar mills (once the finest in the Caribbean) had been destroyed as were 700 coffee plantations. Approximately 100,000 small farms were ... wiped out, their livestock killed or run off, fields trampled, and peasant farmers hiding in the jungles, living off the land to survive.
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