It showed a colonial revolt could produce a nation based on popular sovereignty
The obvious answer would be business leaders. The reason why this is true is becaus business leaders were often the ones who were touting the ideas of social darwinism and how their company is better and will stomp out the smaller one in proper sociodarwinistic fashion.
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The Spanish American war was a belic conflict that begun in 1898 and involved Spain (including Cuba and the Philippines) and the United States. The Leaders involved were:
From Spain:
- Queen Maria Cristina of Austria (regent)
- Admiral Pascual Cervera, who commanded the Spanish Caribbean fleet in Cuba
- Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, Patricio Montojo, Pascual Cervera, Asenio Linares, Manuel Macías, Ramón Blanco, Antero Rubín, Valeriano Weyler (Spanish army)
- Máximo Gómez, Calixto García, Demetri Castillo (Cuba)
- Emilio Aguinaldo, Apolinario Mabini (in Philippines)
From the US:
- Commodore George Dewey, U.S. naval squadron; he destroyed the spanish fleet in Manila, Philippines.
- General Willian Shafter,
- President William McKinley
- Nelson A. Miles
- William T. Sampson