Answer:
Gain control of new territories
Explanation:
The Spanish-American War, commonly called in Spain as the war of Cuba or the Disaster of '98, in Cuba as a Spanish-Cuban-American war, and in Puerto Rico as a Spanish-American war, was a war that confronted Spain and the United States in 1898, result of the American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
At the end of the conflict Spain was defeated and its main results were the loss by the island of Cuba (which was proclaimed an independent republic, but remained under the United States), as well as Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam, which they became colonial dependencies of the United States. In the Philippines, the US occupation degenerated into the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902. The rest of the Spanish possessions of the Pacific were sold to the German Empire through the Spanish-German treaty of February 12, 1899, by which Spain ceded to the German Empire its last archipelagos - the Marianas (except Guam), the Palau and the Carolinas - in exchange for 25 million marks.
