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The Spanish-American War started off with no conflict between US and Spain. Cuba and Spain were were arguing because Cuba thought that it should be it's own country and Spain didn't. Spain was basically using harsh and cruel punishment to get Cuba to shut up. The US wasn't happy, but they didn't really care at first. The ....

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.... Americans, if they hadn't before, they were now demanding war more than ever. They blamed the explosion on Spain and told McKinley to go to war. McKinley had decided to go to war even though Spain had given in to America's demands. He didn't want to look like a coward to the American people. He was also afraid that resisting war would cost Republicans control of Congress in the fall elections. The battle for the Philippines was very important to the war. This is where Spain's fleet was. The US took it o ....