What was the origin of the Spanish-American War?

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The conflict had its origins in Spain's determined effort in the 1890s to destroy the Cuban independence movement. As the brutality of the Spanish authorities was graphically reported in U.S. newspapers especially Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal the U.S. public began to support an independent Cuba.