In February 1898 a New York paper printed a stolen private letter in which Spain's minister in Washington dismissed President McKinley as weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd. What is that document called?

American attention turned to Cuba after fighting broke out on the island in 1895 and Spain sent a general to crush it. What had begun in 1895?

On February 15, 1898 an explosion in Havana harbor destroyed an American warship and killed 266 men aboard her. Which ship was it?

To cut Cuban rebels off from the villages that fed and hid them, Spain's commander herded civilians into guarded camps where hunger and disease killed thousands. Who ordered that policy?

Which two New York newspapers were locked in the circulation war whose sensational Cuba reporting became known as yellow journalism?

In April 1898, after months of failed diplomacy over Cuba, what did Congress actually vote to do?

Which Filipino leader proclaimed independence in 1898 and then led forces against American troops once fighting began in February 1899?

Within days of the Havana harbor explosion, the Journal and the World were telling readers Spain had done it, though no investigation had yet reported a cause. What did that coverage accomplish?

American papers carried reports of Spanish camps in Cuba where crowded civilians died of hunger and disease. What effect did those reports have in the United States?

In March 1898 an American naval court of inquiry reported on the destruction of the Maine. What did it conclude?

The American squadron's destruction of a Spanish fleet in the Pacific in May 1898 had what consequence for the war the United States had just entered over Cuba?

Far more American soldiers died of disease, chiefly typhoid, than of wounds in the fighting of 1898. What did that produce at home once the war ended?

Americans who organized against the treaty that transferred the Philippines argued what?

On May 1, 1898, days after the war began, an American squadron destroyed a Spanish fleet at anchor in a harbor. Where was that?

The Rough Riders, the volunteer cavalry raised by Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, fought dismounted up fortified high ground east of Santiago on July 1, 1898. Which position was that?

On July 3, 1898 a Spanish squadron tried to run out past the American blockade and was destroyed along the coast; the city it had sheltered in surrendered two weeks later. Which Cuban port was it?

In late July 1898 an American force under Nelson Miles landed on a Spanish island in the Caribbean and met little resistance before the fighting stopped in August. Which island was it?

In June 1898 an American cruiser reached a small Spanish Pacific island and took it without a fight, because the garrison had not heard that a war had started. Which island was that?

Which statement correctly distinguishes the Teller Amendment from the Platt Amendment?

Under the Treaty of Paris signed on December 10, 1898, the United States paid Spain $20 million. What was the payment for?

What did the Treaty of Paris of 1898 do about Cuba?

Which two territories did Spain hand over to the United States in the 1898 treaty with no payment attached?

The Platt Amendment required Cuba to sell or lease land to the United States for a naval station. Which site did the United States take under it?

Put these in the order they happened: the signing of the Treaty of Paris; the explosion that destroyed an American warship in Havana harbor; the American declaration of war on Spain.

Put these in the order they happened: the outbreak of the Philippine-American War; the Teller Amendment; the Treaty of Paris.