Puerto Rico Sample Letter for Notification of Hearing
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The strategic value of Puerto Rico for the United States at the end of the nineteenth century centered in economic and military interests. The island's value to US policy makers was as an outlet for excess manufactured goods, as well as a key naval station in the Caribbean.
Puerto Rico was strategically important to the United States, both for maintaining a U.S. presence in the Caribbean and for protecting a future canal that American leaders wanted to build across the Isthmus of Panama.
1898: The United States gains control of Puerto Rico through the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War.
In 1917, the U.S. Congress passed the Jones Act, which brought Puerto Rico the first significant political changes under U.S. colonial rule. With this law, Congress established a popularly elected legislative branch (a Senate and a House of Representatives) and extended American citizenship to Puerto Rican citizens.
Background. The United States acquired the islands of Puerto Rico in 1898 after the Spanish?American War, and the archipelago has been under U.S. sovereignty since.
Washington, October 9, 1952. My Dear Mr. Secretary: I am pleased to report to you that with the establishment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on July 25, 1952, the people of Puerto Rico have attained a full measure of self-government, consistent with Puerto Rico's status as a territory of the United States.
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. Territory status limits the island's full political, economic, and social development.
Puerto Rico was ceded to the U.S. by the Treaty of Paris at the end of the Spanish-American War. Puerto Rico is not a state, but rather a U.S. territory with commonwealth status. Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917. The U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) were formerly the Danish West Indies.
