Puerto Rico In The 19th Century

In Reproducing Empire, Laura Briggs provides her readers with a very thorough history of the mainland U.S. and Puerto Rican discourses and its authors surrounding Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, from Puerto Rico's formation in the mainland elite's "mind" as a model U.S. (not) colony in 1898* to its present status as semi-autonomous U.S.

In the 1700s and 1800s the united states showed an increasing interest in the pacific islands. There were several different goals in having control over them. They had growing interest in islands such as Hawaii. The United states were the colonizers of the pacific islands and imperialized it.

Ponce City Market is a new development including retail, residential and commercial space that repurposes the historic Sears Roebuck and Company building in the Old Fourth Ward district of Atlanta.

After the 1898 Spanish-American war and the treaty of Paris, the Island of Puerto Rico,; became an US territory. The treaty signed between Spain and the United States of America, established that the future of Puerto Rico would be decided by the US congress as the unique and last stance to define the status of the island. According to the treaty of Paris, Puerto Rico became a formal “colony” of the United States administered by the US army. However, the arrival of the Great War slightly changed the situation.

Are there differences between living in Puerto Rico and living in the United States? I believe that there are big differences. I came to the United States when I was five years old. I then moved to Philadelphia for one year, lived in Georgia for six years, and now I am currently living in Maryland. I always go back to Puerto Rico to visit my family. I love it there. I like living in the United States but there are many things that differ such as the location itself, people and the schools.

Puerto Ricans have a very distinct and complicated history. Their history is unlike any other immigrants who migrated at the United States at any time. Their island became a focus of the United States in 1898, when they won the island as booty in the Spanish-American war. Puerto Ricans residing in the United States have always had the dilemma of having to straddle both the American and Puerto Rican cultures and Spanish and English languages. In my opinion, Puerto Ricans have never had it easy living in the United States. So when I ask my grandparents, and other older generation Puerto Ricans why they decided to migrate from what I thought was "paradise" to

Puerto Rico has been under US sovereignty since the Spanish American War in 1898, where United States gained territorial control of Puerto Rico, along with Philippines and Guam. Since this time, United States and Puerto Rico have engaged in a very peculiar relationship; and to this date, Puerto Rico remains a territory. In 1917, part of the Jones-Shafroth act, the United States Congress granted the people of Puerto Rico US citizenship, the right to have an elected state senate, established a Bill of Rights, and authorized the election of a Resident

People often call Puerto Rico’s culture colorful. Puerto Rican art students often go to Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in the Dominican Convent in Old San Juan. Santos are considered the most impressive crafts of Puerto Rico. Santos have been produced since the 1500s and are carved religious figures. People who make these are called Santeros. They use clay, gold, stone, or cedar wood to carve the figures. Mundillos is are crafts made of bobbin lace-making. This kind of lace only exists in Puerto Rico and Spain. Torachon is the first lace that was made in PUerto rico. Artists have changed torchon into a delicate art.

The commonwealth status of Puerto Rico between the 1950-1952 was with limited autonomy since the Island was still under the Sovereignty of the United States (Francesco, C. & Eugene, 1999). The United States annexed Puerto Rico following the end of the Spanish-American War. For almost a century Puerto Rico has been under the influence of the United States. The constitutional convention of 1952 gave Puerto Rico the right to form a republican government.

Politics was a major topic for Americans around the nineteenth century, between 1876 to 1896 a 79 percent of the electoral vote made of a majority of white men. Women and blacks had major challenges when they tried to vote. For Women, they were denied the right to vote in national elections. The National Women Suffrage Association challenged this right in 1875 yet it was denied and only after 1900 a few states started to allow women to vote. Many states used a different method to keep black voters out of the polls. In Georgia, a poll tax kept the poor blacks out, while in Mississippi used literacy tests and Louisiana passed the grandfather clause in 1898 which when combined with a literacy test it denied most blacks yet allowed most white men to vote.

From the early 16th century to the mid 1900s, the nations of Europe scrambled to colonize the untouched places of the world. Enamored by the promises of the Americas and the New World, the European powers established settlements in unknown lands, transplanting their cultures and beliefs with the hopes of securing precious resources and further expanding their empires. With colonization often comes the displacement of a native people as well the utilization of slave populations to provide manual labor and domestic servitude. The interaction between these groups, some native, most implanted, effected new, uniquely blended cultures— a process of transculturation. Cuba (colonized by the Spanish in the early 16th century) became the birthplace

The migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States occurred in two major waves. The first wave was in the 1910s-1940s and the second wave was from the 1960s to the 1990s. Each wave of migrants brought new generations of Puerto Ricans to the United States. Both waves of migrants believed that they were going to live a better life in America and migrated to major cities such as New York City, Chicago, Hartford, etc. The early migrants looked for industrial jobs such as in cigar factories while the later migrants found agricultural work such as in tobacco fields. The communities in which they lived grew larger and larger due to chain migration and because of this, the need for politics evolved.

citizenship since 1917. In other words, Puerto Ricans have been granted U.S citizenships for 99 years (1-year shy from a century) and admittance into the U.S has yet to occur. More than half of eligible voters voted in advocating of beginning the process admitting Puerto Rico to the Union. it is vital for Puerto Rico to become formally recognized and incorporated into the United States because it elevates the quality of life in Puerto Rico, aids in its economic salvation, and fashions innovative and integrative access to education and career opportunities. It is even more caustic, how Puerto Ricans pay US federal taxes but have little to no say in governmental actions. For 520 years, Puerto Rico has been a colony, of Spain first and of The United States since 1898. It is the oldest colony in the world. Three consecutive U.S. presidents encouraged Puerto Rico to make a permanent decision about our political status. This was the case of the Task Force established by President Clinton to deal with our status issue. It was followed by both presidents Bush and Barack Obama's respective White House Reports on Puerto Rico Status in 2005, 2007 and 2011. Puerto Rico deserves to become the 51st State of the Union with the same rights and responsibilities than the rest of our fellow Americans. After all, we have been proud American citizens since 1917. We have significantly contributed the defense of our Nation at home and abroad in all

One hundred years ago, in 1898, the United States was fighting the Spanish-American War. The victory over Spain made the United States a colonial power. The Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, as well as the formerly independent nation of Hawaii, became American possessions.

America has been home to many people that aren 't native to the origins of the land. Many of those people are of descendents either of African, French, Dutch, or the Caribbeans. These are the people that are credited with migrating from their native homeland to the foreign land of America. Not many people care to realize that Puerto Ricans are apart of that group. This is because Puerto Ricans don’t need visas to enter the country. The truth of the matter is though Puerto Ricans don’t need visas to get here, many still left their native land for the states so that they can have a better life. America has a history of making Puerto Rico reliant on them because we 're a colony (commonwealth). Puerto Ricans voyaged to America for a number of reasons, them being the same as every other group that migrated here :- Poverty, Jobs.