Why was acquiring guam important for the united states in the spanish-american war? acquiring guam allowed the united states to have a naval base in the pacific. acquiring guam allowed the united states to export guam’s raw materials. acquiring guam allowed the united states to sell goods to the people of guam. acquiring guam gave the united states fishing rights in the pacific ocean.

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A strange explosion dropped the battleship USS Maine in Havana Harbor, triggering a war between the United States and Spain. Maine had come to Cuba to defend American citizens while Cuban revolutionists were battling to win independence from Spain. U.S. victory in the war gave a peace treaty that enforced the Spanish to abandon demands on Cuba and to cede supremacy over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States. The United States also joined the independent state of Hawaii during the dispute.

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the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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