Puerto Rico In The 19th Century

The political and military policies of a decaying Spain and the emerging regional power of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, however, placed Puerto Rico, along with Cuba, at center stage in the Caribbean. Out of all the colonies under Spanish rule, the island of Puerto Rico was the only one to never obtain its own independence. The final quarter of the nineteenth century carried dramatic radical, social, and financial alterations to the island, setting the tone for the advancement of its domestic organizations and the change of its administrative organization as a territory of the United States within the twentieth century.
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