Monday, May 5

We went over the U.S. map test.  200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped and the kidnapper is going to sell them. 

Spanish-American war:

  • 1898
  • 3 months
  • not a lot of deaths
  • got a lot of land(Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines) 
  • won
  • We became an empire 

WW1

  • 1914-1918
  • trenches
  • were were in it 1917-1918
  • Over colonies in Africa, Japan, Asia 
  • Winner gets land

Spain granted Puerto Rico self rule. In July 1989, near the end of the spanish-american war. The U.S. forces invaded Puerto Rico. After the U.S. signed an armistice with spain the island was turned over to us. In 1952 they adopted the U.S. constitution and the citizens officially were U.S. citizens. They are still part of the U.S. 

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