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Read President McKinley’s State of the Union Address from April 11, 1898, in the passage below and answer questions #8-14 “The grounds for such intervention may be briefly summarized as follows:

First, in the cause of humanity and to put an end to the barbarities, bloodshed, starvation, horrible miseries now existing there…

Second, we owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them protection and indemnity for life and property, which no government there can or will afford…

Third, the right to intervene may be justified by the very serious injury to the commerce, trade and business of our people, and by the wanton destruction of property and devastation of the island…
Question 8 (2 points)

To whom is President McKinley directing the State of the Union speech?
a

The United States Congress in the Washington D. C.
b

The American people via television.
c

The Cuban people while sitting on a beach in Havana.
d

The Spanish people via internet.

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