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Becoming America

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The United States of America in the 19th Century

In 1898, the United States enters a war that Spain is already fighting with its colonies. By this time, there's still a kind of evasion about referring to the United States in shorthand as just America. The United States takes over a number of Spain's colonial possessions.

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