According to the online CIA Fact Book September 8th, 2010, Samoa is it's own country, having claimed Independence from New Zealand on January 1st, 1962.
You might be confusing Samoa with American Samoa.
American Samoa is a Territory of the United States. American Samoans do not have voting representative in the US Congress and they cannot vote for President. They do pay all Federal Taxes and receive US military protection.
American Samoans are citizens of the US but it is a lower level of citizenship that what Americans born in and living in one of the 50 states and District of Columbia.
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Spanish-American War: 1898. Howland Island: 1857* Wake Island: 1899 American Samoa: 1889/1900.
Swains Island, Jarvis Island and American Samoa.
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is part of an island chain in the Southwest Pacific.
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is part of an island chain in the Southwest Pacific.
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No Samoa is an Island between the North American mainland and the Australian Continent.
Capital of Samoa is Apia.The capital of Samoa (formerly western Samoa) is Apia, on the island of Upolu. The word Western was dropped from the name of the country in 1997.(The capitals of American Samoa are Pago Pago and Fagatogo, the seat of government.)
Pago Pago, American Samoa
Guam and American Samoa.
The US did not gain their current territories of American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands as a result of the Spanish-American War.The US did gain the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba as a result of the Spanish-American War.