After heated debate, United States Congress approved the Treaty of Paris on February 6, 1899, by a two-thirds margin (57 to 27). The following day, President McKinley signed the treaty ...

After the Treaty of Paris was signed in December 1899, the treaty required ratification by at least a two thirds majority of the U.S. Senate. The debate regarding the ratification of the treaty ...

There's this zeitgeist for expansion. On December 10, 1898, representatives from Spain and the U.S. signed the Treaty of Paris, formally ending the War of 1898. The group of commissioners depicted ...

On Dec. 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed, which ceded Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States. They got the Philippines to the tune of $20 million.

The historical moment happened on Jan. 14, 1784, when the Continental Congress ratified, or approved, the Treaty of Paris, officially establishing the U.S. as an independent and sovereign nation ...

This article is based on Article III of the 1898 Treaty of Paris. It set the boundaries of Philippine territory as follows: “Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the ...