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Below is a timeline that is on the Intro page of the Spanish-American War assignment site, titled "Key Events Surrounding the Spanish-American War" Do some of the events seem out of place? Why are they more relevant than they appear?
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 * 1500||Spanish Colonize Cuba||
 * July 1845||Journalist John O'Sullivan coins the term “Manifest Destiny.”||
 * 1846-1848||Mexican-American War||
 * 1861-1865||U.S. Civil War||
 * 1868-1878||Cuban War for Independence||
 * 1884-1885||Berlin Conference: Africa divided into colonies by Europe.||
 * 1890||Mahan book advocates U.S. taking Caribbean as colonies.||
 * 1893||Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis.”||
 * April 1898||U.S. declares war on Spain||
 * 1898||Spanish-American War ended with the Treaty of Paris.||

Today we will pick up from where we left off yesterday - the Warm-Up Activity. Which of the articles -- New York Journal versus the New York Times -- did you find most believable and why?
 * What We Did In Class**

Next we'll go back through Documents A and B using the "Notebook" (or the "Notebook" Pages document below) and the Main Inquiry Analysis Chart (handout).

Then we'll go through the next document (Document C), putting it all together. From there, you're on your own! Work on this for homework. Plus, you'll be working on the Inquiry section tomorrow in class. Friday, you'll be completing the "Assignment" segment.

Materials for print/paper copy viewing. The "Modified Document Set" is trimmed down for those who need support.
 * [|Spanish-American War Document Set] ([|Modified])
 * [|Spanish-American War Main Inquiry Documents Analysis Chart]
 * [|Spanish-American War Document Set Inquiry Notebook.pages] document


 * Homework**

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