They hoped to get their destroyed land paid and fixed by Germany because of trench warfare during WW1 and to reduce Germany military power <span />
Answer
Coal spontaneously combusted
Explanation
There are many theories for the cause of the United States the USS Maine explosion with Us men aboard where many died. According to the United States Naval Investigative team team their research concerning this incident , they came to a conclusion that the explosion was caused by fire that had ignited the ammunition stock. According to these investigators there was a strong evidence that the explosion of Maine was caused by an internal coal fire which ignited the magazines. This was a likely cause of the explosion, rather than the initial hypothesis of a mine
There are generally three possibilities for the US to add new states:
Breakup of an existing large state
Conversion of an existing US territory into a state
Annexation (voluntary or not) of either another whole country or part of one, and then conversion into a state.
so yes therefore it is possible
