Since there are no answer choices, i'm going to have to say a Steamship
They believed he would stop once he got to a certain point
<span>Assuming you are referring to Frederick Douglass. He had an estranged relationship with his Former owners the misses of the house all though she taught him the basics of reading he was still a slave, additionally the Man of the house once he found out about this demanded she stop saying that " he could learn enough to want to be free"</span>
The ¨Splendid Little War¨ was a term used by John Hay referring to the Spanish-American war (1898).
He called the event that way basically for all the positive results the US had after the conflict.
Based on national reports it was a short, cheap (money and lives), and the most important part, it was a really popular war, that allowed the US to start to be considered as a world power, between all the nations of the globe.
So making a little syntax, when he mentioned ¨splendid¨ was referring to the excellent results America had after the war and, ¨little¨ highlighting the duration and expenses of it.