Identify two people, ideas, or events that to ignite the spanish-american war. explain the role they played.

Yellow Journalism; U.S.S Maine.
February fifteen, eighteen ninety-eight, the battleship U.S.S Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing two hundred sixty-eight men and shocking the American populace. The American press, headlines proclaimed "Spanish Treachery!' and "Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the work of an enemy"

The virginia plan was a proposal by virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. the albany plan of union was a plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies.