HIST 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Puerto Ricans, Resident Commissioner, Tax Haven
6 Jul 2017
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Puerto-rican migration: puerto rico"s relationship to the united states. 1898, spanish-american war unde ned, unclear status under the u. s. name changed to porto rico in 1917, it was switched again to puerto rico . 1917, jones act all puerto ricans have citizenship unless they rejected it just in time for the wwi draft. 20,000 puerto rican men joined, out of 1,000,000 population gave puerto rico status of territory. First cabinet: combo of americans and puerto rican run by american governor and americans in general. 1940"s: u. s. let puerto ricans have their own government also let puerto rico compete alone in olympics shows viewpoint of puerto rico. 1950: puerto rico is allowed to hold a constitutional convention all but two things: cannot be independent cannot be called a state allowed to build their own constitution. Commonwealth status not a state not independent but own constitution. Migration, compared to immigration since all were citizens.
