(A) ** volunteer regiment made up of college athletes and western cowboys.
(B) Navy fleet that was known to sail the seas in a seemingly effortless manner.
(C) group of Americans who resisted the war effort, believing it was a waste of money.
(D) coalition of yellow journalists who wrote about the rough conditions in Cuban concentration camps.
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Concept note-1: -They gathered a diverse bunch of men consisting of cowboys, gold or mining prospectors, hunters, gamblers, Native Americans, and college boys-all of whom were able-bodied and capable on horseback and in shooting. Half the unit would come from New Mexico according to Roosevelt.
Concept note-2: -The Rough Riders regiment was composed of cowboys and Native Americans. Spain’s colonial governor in Cuba was characterized by the U.S. newspapers as a “fiendish despot, a brute, and an exterminator of men.” Who was he?
Concept note-3: -The most famous of all the units fighting in Cuba, the “Rough Riders” was the name given to the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt.
Concept note-4: -That regiment was the famous Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War. The group was an all-volunteer cavalry regiment of cowboys, Native Americans, college athletes, East Coast blue bloods, ranchers, sheriffs, miners and policemen who banded together in 1898 to drive the Spanish out of Cuba.