Grover Cleveland: Fourth Annual Message to Congress - Milestone Documents

Grover Cleveland: Fourth Annual Message to Congress

( 1896 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

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entanglements probably a reference to important speeches by both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson warning against “entangling [foreign] alliances”
internecine within a group or country
rebellion in Cuba the fight of Cuban nationalists off and on since 1868 for independence from Spain
sovereignty independent rule

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