Question

Identify two people, ideas, or events that helped to ignite the Spanish-American War. Explain the role they played.

Answer 1

Yellow Journalism; U.S.S Maine.
February fifteen, eighteen ninety-eight, the battleship U.S.S Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing two hundred sixty-eight men and shocking the American populace. The American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!' and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the work of an enemy"