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Remember the Maine
- A slogan of the Spanish-American War . The United States battleship Maine mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana , Cuba , in 1898. Stirred up by the yellow press ( see yellow journalism ), the American public blamed the sinking on Spain , which then owned Cuba. President William McKinley , who had opposed war, yielded to public pressure and asked Congress to declare war.
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