On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.5.2.0220 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/statecrime.5.2.0220 This article puts forth the concept of colonial state ...

Puerto Rico has been under U.S. control since the 1898 Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, but they cannot vote in general elections and have no voting ...

An account of the American takeover of the Philippines, beginning with the US defeating Spain, and ending with it brutally suppressing Filipino… ...

With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico, the United States ... request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American ...

following the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the 1898 Spanish-American War. In a non-binding plebiscite in November, nearly 70 percent of participating voters in Puerto Rico chose ...