Results for Wars That Shaped the Nation
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Spanish-American War
On 25 April 1898, Congress ...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Mexican War
The Mexican War increased the nation...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The War of 1812
The United States declared war on Gr...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Revolutionary War
In 1775, American minutemen at...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Mexican War
The Mexican War increased the nati...
Results for Wars That Shaped the Nation
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Spanish-American War
On 25 April 1898, Congress declared war against Spain after the USS Maine blew up under mysterious circumstances in the port of Havana, Cuba. The U.S. raised an expeditionary army to liberate Cuba and the Philippines from Spanish ...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Mexican War
The Mexican War increased the nation’s size by over 20 percent and continued the rapid territorial expansion of the United States. In 1846, after a number of incidents along the border between Texas and Mexico, the United States ...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The War of 1812
The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812 after several years of tension stemming primarily from disputes over the British blockade of France during its wars with Napoleon. At first, attention focused on American ...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Revolutionary War
In 1775, American minutemen at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, fired the “shots heard around the world.” The colonists fought the British to establish their independence from New York to Georgia and from Massachusetts Bay to the Indian territories ...
Wars That Shaped the Nation
The Mexican War
The Mexican War increased the nation’s size by over 20 percent and continued the rapid territorial expansion of the United States. In 1846, after a number of incidents along the border between Texas and Mexico, the United ...
