Spanish American War Land Gained. And possessed enough land to house and train large numbers of troops for service in the Philippines. The US did not gain their current territories of American Samoa US Virgin Islands or the Northern Mariana Islands as a result of the Spanish-American WarThe US did gain the Philippines Guam.
Fought between April and August 1898 the Spanish-American War was the result of American concern over Spanish treatment of Cuba political pressures and anger over the sinking of USS Maine. Emerged from the war a world power and Spain ironically experienced a cultural renaissance. Gain following the Spanish-American War.
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The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spains colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power. Territories while the Philippines eventually became. But expansionists in the US. The first American victory in the war occurred in the Philippines.