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Not exactly lost but the US did give up the Philippines and Cuba. We also gave back Okinawa and the Panama Canal.

We also sort of lost territory in the Treaty of 1818 with the British (they gave us parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota, in return for part of modern-day southern Alberta)

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