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US territory wants to ditch America and rejoin Spain
Puerto Rico - an unincorporated territory of the United States - has put forward a number of proposals to break away from the ...
Smithsonian Magazine2mon
Telling the History of the U.S. Through Its Territories
It also excludes the places that are still territories of the United States—Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was also ...
USA Today5mon
Greenland is a no, but what territories has the U.S. purchased?
In 1803, the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, approximately 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The lands acquired stretched from the ...
USA Today7mon
Can U.S. territories vote for president? A brief guide to Puerto Rico, Guam, more
Here's a guide to the others. The U.S. territories include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. While the territories participate in ...
The New York Times1mon
TWO ARIZONA TERRITORIES.; One Organized by the Confederate States in 1862, the Other a Year Later by the United States.
From these quotations from the two platforms it seems that in the success of either party the result must be that the Territories shall be admitted as States of the United States. My purpose is ...
Orange County Register11mon
Here’s a look at how U.S. territories became states
On July 7, 1846, the U.S. officially annexed California. Here’s a look at our nation’s territorial expansion. Napoleon Bonaparte had a huge impact on Europe, but he altered the course of ...
The Washington Post3mon
How the U.S. acquired its lands — as Trump eyes territorial expansion
President Donald Trump’s long-standing fixation on expanding the United States — refusing to rule out acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland and the Panama Canal by military coercion and ...
ABC News11d
A US territory's colonial history emerges in state disputes over voting and citizenship
“It would be nice for us to have the same rights as everybody ... citizenship would jeopardize its customs — including the territory’s communal land laws. Island residents could be ...
Newsweek9mon
Daylight Saving Time: US States and Territories Where Clocks Won't 'Fall Back'
In the United States, clocks change twice a year with the exception of Arizona, minus the Navajo Nation, Hawaii and a number of territories, including Puerto Rico. More INA FASSBENDER/AFP/GETTY ...