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The correct answer is B) Cuban independence was assured.
The Spanish-American War was one in which the United States got involved in helping Cuba become free from Spanish control. The United States ended up winning this war, helping Cuba become free from Spanish control. Along with this, the US gained the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico from this deal. This helped to start the beginning of the American Empire.
September 14, 1814
On September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America's national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The poem, originally titled “The Defence of Fort M'Henry,” was written after Key witnessed the Maryland fort being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812.
Its crackling roots blazed and hissed as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens that's the iron's strength - so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake
