The treaty allowed for the US to give Spain 5 million dollars in exchange for the US to gain ownership of Florida and the western territory of California
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That is was the key stone to their life and they needed to protect it at with everything they had to offer,
United States control of Puerto Rico’s government with Puerto Ricans
becoming U.S. citizens after 1917; the Philippines providing a naval
base to guard U.S. trade in Asia, which in turn provided some
improvement in Filipino schools, roads, and healthcare.
The answer is the the empire was conquered and exploited by Pizarro and other Europeans.
