If you were a member to the 1898 Congress, would you have voted to declare war on Spain? Why or why not?

If I was a member of the 1898 congress I would have voted to declare war on Spain because of  the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898.

Explanation:

On February 17, 1898, the battleship USS Maine, moored in Havana’s harbor, sank after being rocked by two explosions; 252 men onboard were killed. Hawks in the media and within the government immediately blamed Spain, and President McKinley, abandoning his hopes for neutrality in the Cuban-Spanish conflict, bowed to Congressional calls for war. (It was later discovered that the explosion was caused by the spontaneous ignition of faulty ammunitions onboard the Maine.)

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