Teacher’s Guide
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The Spanish-American War: The United States Becomes a World Power Teacher's Guide (PDF, 1.52 MB)
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Primary Sources
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Strategic Map of Our War with Spain
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The President Favors Armed Intervention
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The Great Naval Battle off Cavite (Manila Bay)
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New-York Tribune. June 8, 1898
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The big type war of the yellow kids
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Spanish American War, Infantry...
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Spain’s Fleet Destroyed, Ladrone Islands Are Ours
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Col. Theodore Roosevelt of the ‘Rough Riders’...
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No Trifling with Filipinos Now
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