The statement which describes a result of the Spanish-American War was that a) the United States acquired territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean. This was because of the Treaty of Paris which was signed in 1898 where negotiations were made for the United States to gain temporary control over Cuba and the ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines was given from Spain to the United States. In return, the United States had to pay a lump sum to Spain to gain acess to the Philippines.
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The Enlightenment influenced the French and Haitian Revolutions by inculcating on the minds of people the possibility and importance of equality and representative government.
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- Toussaint L’Ouverture, a slave who was influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, went to the Caribbeans and inculcated on the minds of the people the significance of freedom.
- He took charge as the leader of the revolution in Haiti and led it against their French colonizer.
- The seeking of equality and equal representation proposed through the enlightenment ideas became the foundation of the French Revolution.
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