The correct option is: "more time was spent fighting the Spanish-American war than the Philippine American war"
The Spanish-American War, (April 25-August 12, 1898) commonly referred to in Spain as the Cuba War or the Disaster of '98, in Cuba as a Spanish-Cuban-American War, and in Puerto Rico as a Spanish-American War, was a warlike conflict that faced Spain and the United States in 1898, result of the American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
The Philippine-American War, the first national liberation war of the twentieth century, was a war between the Philippines and the United States Army from February 4, 1899 to April 16, 1902.