Treaty of Paris (1898)

The Treaty of Paris of 1898 ended the Spanish–American War, which had lasted only a few months and had gone overwhelmingly in favor of the United States. Spain gave up its claim to Cuba, which became independent under American supervision, and ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States. It also handed over the Philippines in return for a payment of twenty million dollars. The treaty marked the end of the Spanish colonial empire in the Americas and Asia, and the beginning of the United States as an overseas colonial power. The annexation of the Philippines was controversial in the Senate, which ratified it by a narrow margin, and was followed by the Philippine–American War.

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