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Standard 5.1.P

5.1.P Summarize how the United States’ involvement in the Spanish American War led to increased U.S. economic expansion and imperialism.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Supplies for the Quarantine Camp, 1899

Episode 3

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Many of the casualties among American forces who fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War were the result of disease, not wounds. Daufuskie Island became a quarantine detention camp for soldiers...

5th Massachusetts Infantry on Parade | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 1

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Recruits for the army that was raised to fight the Spanish-American War, begun in 1898 when the battleship "Maine" exploded in a Cuban harbor, were trained at Camp Wetherill near Greenville. This Army...