USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

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Who led the fight for Cuba’s independence from Spain from 1895 through the Spanish-American War

(A) Sanford Dole

(B) ** Jose Marti

(C) Valeriano Weyler

(D) Enrique de Lome

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -That war concluded with a treaty that was never enforced. In the 1890’s Cubans began to agitate once again for their freedom from Spain. The moral leader of this struggle was José Martí, known as “El Apóstol, ” who established the Cuban Revolutionary Party on January 5, 1892 in the United States.