Spanish-American War: TX

US History (Grade 9):
• The student understands the emergence of the United States as a world power between 1898 and 1920. The student is expected to:
  1. explain why significant events and individuals, including the Spanish-American War, U.S. expansionism, Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Theodore Roosevelt, moved the United States into the position of a world power;