<span>The important thing about it was that it paved the way for the Liberation War because the war left Britain much poorer which it tried to compensate for by taxing colonies more which didn't go well. Also, it showed that it was possible to stand up to britain and France showed the colonists how to fight together against Britain.</span>
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After the United States acquired the Philippines in the wake of the Spanish-American War, the famous British poet Rudyard Kipling (the same man who wrote the Jungle Book), wrote The White Man’s Burden to the American people.
