After losing the Spanish-American War in 1898, Spain had to give up Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba to the US, leaving Spain with only the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and continental Spain to its name.
No.
No, they are similar but different.
To give them a voice at high levels in the US Government.
50 million dollars
never give up
There are a ton of websites for this, just type in puerto rico vacation package and you will get a list of sites that will give you all the info you need. Priceline.com does something like this.
You can go online and search for travel agents Puerto Rico. One website you may come across is http://www.seepuertorico.com. While it's a person to give you audible information there is lots of information on different tourist places in Puerto Rico.
Jones-Shafroth Act gave them U.S. citizenship .
Control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific island of Guam.
Statistically-speaking, Puerto Rico is poorer than the Dominican Republic. Even with the help of the US, Puerto Rico maintains a 45% poverty rate, which is a bit higher than the DR's 42%. Now just give Puerto Rico it's independence and it'll quickly turn into Haiti, and they'll be swimming to their neighbors like they did in the early 1900's.
Because they were broke and needed $20 million.