We discussed how the Spanish-American war began and why the Cuban revolution worried people in the US. We also discussed reasons why the Ametican newspapers sensationalized the conflict in Cuba and why people were supposed to remember the ship, the USS Maine, which was to remind the Americans why the US needed to fight Spain. We continued to read in Chapter 30 about the Rough Riders,The Treaty of Paris, and discussed what happened to the Spanish Empire during the Spanish-American War. We ended our session examining the reasons why the Anti-Imperialist League opposed expansion and the arguments for and against it.