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Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

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26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration; "Theodore Roosevelt said `Speak softly but carry a big stick'" (1858-1919)

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George Dewey

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American commander of Pacific Fleet. When war breaks out with Spain (1898) secretly sails ships to Philippines (a Spanish colony) and destroys Spanish fleet at Manila Harbor.

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William Randolph Hearst

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Yellow Journalist who ran the New York Journal. He is notorious for the quote, "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war."

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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Filipino nationalist who led forces against the U.S. until 1901 when they realized that the U.S. would not grant the Philippines their independence

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Spain

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1.A country in southwestern Europe that occupies the greater part of the Iberian peninsula

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Guam

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1.The largest and most southern of the Mariana Islands, administered as an unincorporated territory of the US

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Philippines

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1.A country in Southeast Asia that consists of an archipelago of over 7,000 islands—the main ones being Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Leyte, Samar, Negros, and Panay—that are separated from the Asian mainland by the South China Sea

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Cuba

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1.A country in the western West Indies, the largest and furthest west of the islands, in the Caribbean Sea at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico

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Puerto Rico

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1.An island in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea

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Colombia

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1.A country in extreme northwestern South America that has a coastline on both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans

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Panama Canal

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1.A canal about 50 miles (80 km) long, across the Isthmus of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its construction, begun by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1881, was abandoned in 1889 and was completed by the US, 1904–14.

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Yellow Journalism

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1.Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration

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Sinking of USS Maine

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USS Maine (ACR-1) was the United States Navy's second commissioned battleship and the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after the state of Maine. Wikipedia

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Spanish American War

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The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War.[