Laws and policies that have stopped working are phased out more quickly than they are in the U.S., where we still pay the 1898 Spanish American War tax in our phone bills.
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Roosevelt was an enthusiastic supporter not only of the Spanish-American War, in which he enlisted, but of the subsequent American takeover of the Spanish empire.
The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620, 000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.
Just the opposite was true of the Spanish-American War, which broke out five years later.
It was first passed in 1898 as a luxury tax to fund the Spanish-American War.
The Spanish-American War and its aftermath represented a turning point in American foreign policy.
The trend culminated in William Randolph Hearst's handling of the Spanish-American War in 1898.
L. Godkin, editor of the New York Post at the time of the Spanish-American war.
Blacks had fought with distinction in the Spanish-American War and would enlist en masse during World War I.
This Spanish-American fight also opened a new chapter in the history of seapower.
The IRS has short and informative YouTube videos on tax related topics in English, Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL).
Its Spanish-American colonial experience, invigorated by Malay, Chinese and indigenous influences, has produced an Asian variant of the rum-and-Coca-Cola culture.
The island came under US control in 1898 when Spain lost the island at the end of the Spanish-American war.
True, the United States Navy under Admiral George Dewey had ousted Spain from the Philippines in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
So obviously she opposed the 1898 Spanish-American, WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam.
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The Spanish-American War (1898) spurred federal officials to scramble for more revenue.
In 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War.
"A Message to Garcia" is a parable of heroic initiative and duty, very loosely based on events during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
The United States occupied Guantanamo Bay, discovered by the Europeans in 1494, during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and established a base there.
"Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War" combines historical footage, crisp narration by Edward James Olmos and interviews with a well-balanced group of historians.
They stayed there for about 100 years until the Spanish-American War in 1898, when they were transferred back to Seville, to the Catedral de Sevilla.
In 1898, the Spanish-American war began after the battleship U.S.S. Maine, traveling to Havana on a goodwill mission, struck a mine and blew up.
These years represented a triumph of Wilsonianism and of the lessons that America had learned from the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Vietnam War.
The United States wrested Guantanamo Bay -- discovered by Europeans in 1494 -- from the Spanish during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and established a base there.
The Spanish-American War was fought in full view of the world, and President Taft announced exactly what he was doing when he moved to overthrow the governments of Nicaragua and Honduras.
Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.
Lakeland, Florida is an idyllic, (aptly) lake-filled municipality in the center of the state that boomed in the late 19th century when it became a base for soldiers in the Spanish-American War.
Laws and policies that have stopped working are phased out more quickly than they are in the U.S. For example, we retained the 1898 Spanish-American War tax as part of our phone bills until earlier this year.
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
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