Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico became a US Territory following the Spanish-American War in 1898, and its residents became US citizens in 1917. It has been a US Commonwealth since 1952.
The Jones Act of 1917.
Foraker Law 1917
Vladimir I. Lenin became the leader of the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
In 1901, in the Insular Cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did not automatically apply to people in acquired territories. Congress, however, retained the right to extend U.S. citizenship, and it granted that right to Puerto Ricans in 1917. It also gave them the right to elect both houses of their legislature.
Finland became independent in 1917.
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The cast of The Comeback - 1917 includes: George Berrell as Uncle Jimmy Tom Grimes as Third Citizen Bud Osborne as First Citizen Leo Pierson as J. Lowell Quackenboss Jack Walters as Crying Kid