Which part of the text does each statement refer to?

#1. The Spanish did not admit that they had had relation to the blowing up of the American ship. (…)

#2. Americans were welcomed by the authorities of Cuba when their ship approached Cuba. (…)

#3. Cuba was fighting for its independence from Spain. (…)

#4. American newspapers claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the blowing up of the American ship. (…)

#5. President William McKinly did not want a war with Spain. (…)

1. Cuba was a Spanish colony that was fighting for its independence.

2. Many Americans sympathized with the Cuban patriots. Besides, some Americans had invested 100 million dollars in the Cuban sugar industry.

3. President William McKinly wanted to avoid war. He send the battleship Maine to the Cuban capital Havana to protect Americans and their property.

4. The Spanish rulers of Cuba welcomed the Americans. But on the night of February 15, 1898, the Maine suddenly exploded. Some 260 Americans sailors were killed.

5. Americans were furious. Spanish denied that they were responsible for the blowing up of the Maine. Even today no one knows what caused the explosion.

6. But the newspapers of the United States blamed the Spanish.

7. In April 1898 Spain and the United States went to war. The Spanish-American war was fought in other Spanish colonies.

8. In the Philippine Islands Spanish Commidore George Dewey of the United States won a great naval victory at Manila Bay.

9. American soldiers also defeated the Spanish on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico.

10. In ten weeks the war was over.

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Which part of the text does each statement refer to?

#1. Useless ( for some period) try. ( … )

#2. Some types of place names. ( … )

#3. The reason of non-joining the League. ( … )

#4. The result of political forcing. ( … )

#5. The great drawback of a government. ( … )

1. European place names appeared in America beginning with the 16^th century, when Europeans came to inhabit the New World.

2. Some of the names that appeared on the map at that time were those of English and French kings and queens.

3. The organization was called the League of Nations.

4. The Congress refused to let the United States join the League as it supported the idea to stay out and not get involved in new European quarrels.

5. Without the support of the United States hopes for the League began to fade.

6. The new nation had problems that needed to be handled by a strong government.

7. After the Revolution George Washington was troubled by the weakness of the new government.

8. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison also felt something had to be done to find a way to make a stronger national government.

9. In March 1972 years of political violence accompanied by increased acts of terrorism led the British Parliament to suspend Northern Ireland’s Parliament and place the country under direct rule from London.

10. From 1972 a series of attempts were made to introduce either a power-sharing executive or a new assembly, but until 1999 they were not successful.

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