History and government of the United States, for evening schools . ainst the government. Therebellion of 1895 had continued for three years with detrimentto American commerce and investments in Cuba. Further- 1 In both nation and State, throughout the United States, the constitutionsof nation and State make the supreme law. These are interpreted by theSupreme Courts of the United States and of the various States. An act passedby Congress or a State Legislature is not a law when the Supreme Court declaresthat it violates some constitutional provision. 58 HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY more, the moral s
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . ainst the government. Therebellion of 1895 had continued for three years with detrimentto American commerce and investments in Cuba. Further- 1 In both nation and State, throughout the United States, the constitutionsof nation and State make the supreme law. These are interpreted by theSupreme Courts of the United States and of the various States. An act passedby Congress or a State Legislature is not a law when the Supreme Court declaresthat it violates some constitutional provision. 58 HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY more, the moral sentiments of the Americans were shockedby the cruelty of the Spaniards toward the Cubans. At lastthe United States government and people, especially angeredby the destruction of our battleship Maine in Havana harbor,declared war. Manila and Santiago. — Admiral Dewey speedily took Ma-nila, the capital of the Spanish islands of the Philippines, faraway in the Pacific Ocean. An invading army was sent toSantiago, Cuba, while a naval squadron blockaded the coast of. The Oregon at Santiago tiie islands. There, in a great naval fight with the Spanishwar vessels, the Americans were as successful as they had beenat Manila. Santiago was then quickly taken by the Americanland forces. Results of the War. — The result of this war was that Spainabandoned Cuba, surrendered Porto Eico and the island ofGuam as a war indemnity, and in consideration of the sum of$20,000,000 ceded the Philippine Islands to the United a time the United States maintained government in Cuba;but in 1902 the island became an independent republic underour protection in international affairs. HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 69 Hat-vaii and Tutuila. — In 1898 we annexed the HawaiianIslands, and in 1900 they were erected into a territory of theUnited States. In 1900 Tutuila and some neighboring islandsin the Pacific became the property of the United States bytreaty with Germany and Great Britain. Interference in Ch
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