Our next accession of territory was Florida, which was acquired ... 1898, contains some provisions regarding the temporary government of the islands quite similar to the articles of the treaty of ...

In 1898, McKinley alone decided to acquire ... the 1898 Treaty of Paris has been mentioned just once in the last year. In 1898, President William McKinley attacked Spanish territories to stabilize ...

The United States acquired Guam and Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War in 1898, where the U.S. victory forced Spain to give up control of these territories through the Treaty of Paris ...

LONDON, Dec. 14 -- The Paris correspondent of The Times gives the following as the text of the Hispano-American treaty, omitting diplomatic circumlocutions: View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

This article is based on Article III of the 1898 Treaty of Paris. It set the boundaries of Philippine territory as follows: “Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the ...

On Dec. 10, 1898, Spain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris wherein Spain ceded ... Thus, Philippine territory under a federal constitution cannot be greater than that acquired under the ...