The United States administered its newly acquired territories, such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, primarily through a combination of military governance and appointed civilian administrations. In these territories, the U.S. established systems of governance that often reflected American political structures but also faced challenges related to local customs and resistance. The Foraker Act of 1900, for instance, set up a civilian government in Puerto Rico, while the Philippine-American War highlighted the complexities of administering the Philippines. Overall, U.S. administration involved a blend of direct control and efforts to incorporate local governance, often leading to tensions and conflicts.
The Uprising in the Phillipines
Southern slave states saw that the new western US territories might not be slave states. If so, then in the US Congress, they would soon be under represented. Without new territories to be settled, then the South had a chance to remain in equal parity in the US Congress.
It made it that the US government had direct control over territories.
They were governed as territories.
For the most part they bought the territories. This allows the US to expand to other parts of the world.
US territories - such as the US Virgin Islands and Guam, as opposed to the states of the union and the District of Columbia - are administered by the Department of the Interior. It sounds rather ironic that the Department of the Interior should administer lands which are basically exterior to US boundaries, but that goes back to the administration of territories within the United states before they were admitted as states.
Naval bases
Naval bases
Naval bases
Nothing: the US took those territories by the means of war.
Texas & New Mexico.
Naval bases
Naval bases. Apex :)
People born in US territories become citizens of the US. When the US western border stretched from the Mississippi River to the California coast, new Americans born in those territories added to the "citizen population".
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maddy faulkner and jake spencer
Expansionism