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During the “Age of Imperialism,” the United States exerted political, social, and economic control over countries such as the Philippines. The United States gained control of the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American war. The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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