On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

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Political cartoons and drawings were popular features in 1890s newspapers and the yellow journals of the Spanish-American War era. Before the Spanish-American War began, drawings depicting Spain ...

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens ... after a victorious battle in February, "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed that in the Philippines, 'Tis Dewey ...