Question

Please in your own words only, give me a brief history summary of Puerto Rico and why it became part of U.S citizenship?

Answer 1

Puerto Rico was found in 1493 by C Hristopher Columbus. At began Puerto Rican bloodlines and culure evolved through a mixing of the Spanish, African, and Indigenous Taino and Carib Indians races that shared the island. Over the years numerous unsuccessful attempts were made by the French, Dutch and English to conquer the island. Puerto Rico remained an overseas province of Spain until the Spanish-American war, When U.S. forces invaded the island with a landing at Guanica. Under the Treaty of Paris of 1898, Spain ceded Puerto Rico to the U.S. During World War II, the U.S. Navy purchased two thirds of the island to use as a naval base.The Navy used the area for military exercise and bombing practice for nearly 60 years until a civilian was killed during a bombing exercise in the 1990s. Now the Navy's lands have become wildlife reserves.

Puerto Ricans received U.S. citizenship in 1917 and Puerto Rico officially became a U.S. Commonwealth in 1952. On March 2, 1917 the Jones-Shafroth Act was signed, collectively making Puerto Ricans U S citizens without rescinding their Puerto Rican citizenship. The full protection and rights of the U S constitution do not apply to residents of Puerto Rico until they come to reside in the United States proper. If the earth were to swallow the island, Puerto Ricans would prefer American citizenship to any citizenship in the world. But as long as the island existed, the residents prefered Puerto Rican citizenship.

U.S. citizenship given to Puerto Ricans a month before the United States enters World War I. As citizens, Puerto Ricans could join the U.S. army and 20,000 Puerto ricans were eventuaaly drafted to serve during World War I. Puerto Rican soldiers were sent to guard the Panama Canal, the important waterway, in operation since 1914, which joined the Atlantic and Pacific ocean across the isthmus of Panama in Central America. Later, during World War II, Puerto Rico became an important military and naval base for the U.S. Army. So this is the reason for Puerto Ricans are part of U.S. citizenship.