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Key Events Surrounding the Spanish-American War
Spanish Colonize Cuba
1500Journalist John O'Sullivan coins the term “Manifest Destiny.”
July 1845Mexican-American War
1846-1848U.S. Civil War
1861-1865Cuban War for Independence
1868-1878Berlin Conference: Africa divided into colonies by Europe.
1884-1885Mahan book advocates U.S. taking Caribbean as colonies.
1890Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis.”
1893U.S. declares war on Spain
April 1898Spanish-American War ended with the Treaty of Paris.
1898