**THESE ARE SPARK NOTES**
1895: Cuban Nationalists Revolt Against Spanish Rule
1896: Spanish General Weyler (The "Butcher") Comes To Cuba.
1897: Spain Recalls Weyler
Early 1898: USS Maine Sent To Cuba
February 9, 1898: Hearst Publishes Dupuy Du Lome's Letter Insulting McKinley.
February 15, 1898: Sinking Of The USS Maine
February 25, 1898: Assistant Secretary Of The Navy Theodore Roosevelt Cables Commodore Dewey With Plan: Attack The Philippines If War With Spain Breaks Out
April 11, 1898: McKinley Approves War With Spain
April 24, 1898: Spain Declares War On The US
April 25, 1898: US Declares War On Spain
May 1, 1898: Battle Of Manila Bay (Philippines)
May, 1898: Passage Of The Teller Amendment. July 1, 1898: San Juan Hill taken by "Rough Riders"
July 3, 1898: Battle Of Santiago Spain's Caribbean fleet destroyed. July 7, 1898: Hawaii annexed
July 17, 1898: City Of Santiago Surrenders To General William Shafter
August 12, 1898: Spain Signs Armistice
August 13, 1898: US Troops Capture Manila
December 10, 1898: Treaty Of Paris Signed US annexes Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines.
January 23, 1899: Philippines Declares Itself An Independent Republic Led by Emilio Aguinaldo, the self-declared Filipino government fights a guerilla war against the US that lasts longer than the Spanish-American War itself.
February 6, 1899: The Treaty Of Paris Passes In The Senate
1900: Foraker Act Some self-government allowed in Puerto Rico.
1901: Supreme Court Insular Cases
March 1901: Emilio Auginaldo Captured.
1901: Platt Amendment
1902: US Withdraws From Cuba
1917: Puerto Ricans Given US Citizenship
