Which statements describe causes of the spanish-american war in 1898?

choose all answers that are correct.

americans believed that the spanish had sunk the battleship u. s.s. maine

yellow journalism stirred up pro-war fervor in the american public.

president mckinley declared war to his chances of winning reelection.

spanish authorities in cuba were accused of atrocities against the people.

Historically established causes of the the Spanish-American War (1898) are the sinking of the battleship U.S.S. Maine and a series of yellow journalism publications that criticized Spanish Cuba administration.

However, the historical importance of this war for American history, and the place the US occupies in the world after it, makes this historical event object of many reinterpretations.

Recent historians have called this conflict Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War in order to fully represent every major participant and interests at stake.

At that moment the world was going through a change in international power balance. For example, Great Britain and Spain were dying powers, seeing many colonies seeking independence; Japan, Germany and the US, in their turn, were growing and developing new international interests.

Because of the country's expansion and need for new consumer markets, and US's following attack on Cuba's autonomy after the end of the war (turning Cuba into a US'S protectorat and the Platt Amendment which denied Cuba's self-determination). That's why amongst the causes of the war one can not say the US seeked for Cuba's self-determination and right to be free from Spanish's atrocities.

Cuba being so close to the US and also representing an opportunity for new markets, it was in the US's interest that any kind of social revolution didn't take place there. The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine was probably no more than an excuse.

the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.

confederacy: supported slavery, believed states should be able to nullify federal laws, supported low tariffs

union: everything else