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President Theodore Roosevelt thought that the sinking of Maine was done by the Spanish fleet in 1898 February 15th.
He thought that if US doesnt fight back, they are no better than cowards.
He then ordered George Dewey to attack the Spanish.
But later realizing the Maine was sunk by a mine.
Basically this war is a revenge done by the Americans for their pride and the battleship Maine
9 countries(Armenia,Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)
The answer is slave. The Antebellum Era, likewise roughly
denoted to as the Plantation era, was an era in
the past of the Southern United States, from the late 18th period up until the beginning
of the American Civil War in 1861, manifested by the economic development of
the South grounded on slave-driven plantation agribusiness. The revivalism that
spread thru the country throughout the antebellum era also contributed increase
to several social reform movements like abolitionism (sought to end
slavery).
