Has Puerto Rico experienced fewer privileges and autonomy than other US territories?
Upvote:1
Question:
Has Puerto Rico experienced fewer privileges and autonomy than other US territories?
Short Answer:
It's a very broad question. The way the question is worded the answer would yes.
Background:
The United States invaded Puerto Rico in July 1898 with little opposition (seven American soldiers died ). By Oct 1898 the United States signed an armistice with Spain granting it the possession of the Island.
- 1917 the US Granted full US citizenship to the citizens of Puerto Rico.
- 1948, Puerto Ricans could elect their own governor
- 1952 the U.S. Congress approved a new Puerto Rican constitution that made the island an autonomous U.S. commonwealth, with it's citizens retaining full U.S. Citizenship.
- 1967 and 1993, popular referendums were held for independence, with the majority of Puerto Ricans supporting the continuation of their special status as a U.S. commonwealth.
Detailed Answer:
Puerto Rico has experienced fewer privileges than some other U.S. Territories. If we compare Puerto Rico with Hawaii both of which became territories around the same time.
From 1898 - Jan 1949, Puerto Rico had an appointed Governor and its people were denied the right to elect their own leadership. Hawaii for example entered the union in 1890 and was permitted to elect Sanford B. Dole, their first governor in that same year. Many territories enjoyed a much faster path to representative governance inside the federated system.
Citizenship was also granted to all citizens of the Republic of Hawaii for example, as of 1898 immediately in 1890 when it became a US territory. It took, 20 years (1917) for Puerto Ricans to gain US citizenship after becoming a territory.
More post
- 📝 How were settlers' houses in Kamchatka built?
- 📝 After the First Opium war, Why didn't Britain demand large amounts of territory from China?
- 📝 What events led to the Aztecs and Mayans adopting cocoa beans as a currency?
- 📝 Were there elections in France under the absolute monarchy?
- 📝 Are rural residents more likely to survive large scale war (> 1 million deaths) than urban residents? (Data based answers only)
- 📝 When was Donald Trump's first visit to his mother's birthplace, the Isle of Lewis?
- 📝 Do historians agree that most wars are caused by religion?
- 📝 How were peasant houses constructed in medieval England?
- 📝 What was the status of Shia Muslims in the Ottoman empire?
- 📝 Were Ancient Egyptian kings BELIEVED TO BE subject to judgment by Maat in the Afterworld like other people or were they immune or do we know?
- 📝 How did Christianity replace Roman Paganism and other ancient religions?
- 📝 Why did Denmark, unlike in other 'rich' nations, favour agriculture in the 1920s?
- 📝 What was the rate of premarital conceptions in England from 1850 to 1890?
- 📝 Why is it called the War of Knives?
- 📝 How did silk manufacturing become a major industry in medieval Europe?
- 📝 What do I ask myself/ teach my child to ask herself when looking for translations/adaptations of historical/epic works for her?
- 📝 How serious was the initiative to create "One World Airline"?
- 📝 Was Alexander Coffroth for or against slavery? And in what instances?
- 📝 What was the Soviet reaction to the revelations about secret US programs like Projects ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MOCKINGBIRD, etc., revealed in the 1970s?
- 📝 Why do historians distinguish two Industrial revolutions, instead of just one?
- 📝 Could the nukes involved in the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash have detonated?
- 📝 WWI: British blockade of Germany (and neutrals)
- 📝 Why was the War of the League of Cambrai such a hot mess?
- 📝 Was the "Mot Pulk" formation simply a propaganda ploy?
- 📝 "More Frenchmen bore arms for the Axis than for the Allies during the Second World War"?
- 📝 What was the exact path of the Doolittle Raid?
- 📝 How old is the Classic Arabic language?
- 📝 Why have population maps indicated a stark divide in population density of the United States on either side ot the 100th Meridian?
- 📝 How did ancient people treat acne?
- 📝 (Why) did the PRC not [ever] recognize the incorporation of the Baltic states into the USSR?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Has Puerto Rico experienced fewer privileges and autonomy than other US territories?
- 📝 Has there ever been a cold war other than between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.?
- 📝 Other than Mr. Putin, has there been occassion of an ex-secret agent becoming the primary executive power holder?
- 📝 Did more Jews live in Poland than any other country, prior to the Holocaust, because of how Polish laws and people regarded Jews?
- 📝 What evidence is there of Asians and Africans in medieval Britain other than Moors in the 7th century?
- 📝 What did Central America export in the early 20th century other than coffee and bananas?
- 📝 Have there been known instances in history when a queen consort slept with someone other than her husband, and no one got hurt? How was that possible?
- 📝 Other than coffee and tobacco what major product became Cuba's source of wealth in the 18th century?
- 📝 What was the nature and extent of forced or coerced sterilization in Puerto Rico from the 1940s-1970s?
- 📝 Has any country, other than Britain, given away its empire?
- 📝 Has the United States paid US dollars as reparations to children other than a "child" of Japanese American internees during World War II?
- 📝 Are there any incidents of war / brutalities because of Football match other than the famous one between El Salvador and Honduras?
- 📝 Why were the Thirteen Colonies more successful, both economically and socially, than other colonies?
- 📝 Why was North and South America less developed than other parts of the world?
- 📝 Has a sovereign Communist government ever run, and conceded loss, on a fair election?
- 📝 If the Union Jack joins the flag of England and Scotland, why does it have a different shade of blue than the Scottish flag?
- 📝 Why were helmets and other body armour not commonplace in the 1800s?
- 📝 Has there ever been an archbishop or bishop younger than the 16-year-old James of Nicosia?
- 📝 Why did the Chinese Nationalist party members go to the island of Taiwan and not to any other island?
- 📝 How to identify this coin with a bust on one side and the letters S and C on the other side?
- 📝 Why did Henry III of England give his sons English names, other than naming them after his favourite saints?
- 📝 Why didn't the Persians make and use ballistas and other kinds of artillery?
- 📝 Why did the German air force lose experienced pilots faster than the Allies, even though they were defending their home airspace?
- 📝 How did Christianity replace Roman Paganism and other ancient religions?
- 📝 Has a major war ever occured and a map before the war looked exactly the same after?
- 📝 What did other European powers say when Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- 📝 What other one word responses have been made to military ultimatums besides "Nuts!", "Mokusatsu" and "If"?
- 📝 Are there military commanders other than Khalid ibn al-Walid who have never been defeated?
- 📝 What were the thoughts of the Celts, Romans and other ancient European people about the standing stones which survive from prehistoric times?
- 📝 Why were the Prague Spring leaders treated more leniently than Nagy and his colleagues?