The 1993 constitution declares Russia a democratic, federative, law-based state with a republican form of government. State power is divided among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Diversity of ideologies and religions is sanctioned, and a state or compulsory ideology may not be adopted.
The war giving Cuba independence from Spain was the "Spanish American War", since this was the war in which the US engaged with Spain in part because of their ill treatment towards the Cuban natives.
The Mississippi river and other western tributaries most notably the Missouri river formed pathways for western expansion.
