William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention

Glossary

• beget to bring into being
• belligerents persons or nations at war
• engross occupy wholly
• enjoin order, enforce
• equanimity calmness
• forbearance restraint, patience
• incumbent resting on as an obligation or duty
• insurrection revolt or rebellion
• lucrative profitable
• maxim statement of general truth
• onerous burdensome
• pacification producing peace, sometimes through military action
• precept commandment or direction
• reconcentration process of moving the Cuban population into fortified areas
• sanguinary bloody
• subjugation state of being conquered
• ultimo old-fashioned way of saying “in the last month”