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

After Hurricane Maria hit the island ... The U.S. acquired Puerto Rico as a spoil of the Spanish-American War of 1898. “Do ...

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 ...

Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón asked President-elect Trump to take action after Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro ...

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro gestures after taking the ... team for comment. Puerto Rico has been under U.S. control since the 1898 Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans have been U.S ...

Puerto Rican voters have overwhelmingly chosen to keep their U.S. citizenship, granted in 1917 by an act of Congress, following the U.S. takeover of the island from Spain in the 1898 Spanish-American ...