Puerto Rico was originally ruled by Spain. How did it evolve into an American autonomous region?

Because the United States launched the Spanish-American War and Spain lost, Puerto Rico became an autonomous region of the United States according to the agreement.

Puerto Rico is located in Central America and North America. Although not as far away as Hawaii and Alaska, two American enclaves, and not far from the United States, they are not adjacent. Among them are Cuba, Bahamas and other countries. Gradually enter the overseas autonomy of the United States? Puerto Rico, like the islands in Latin America, belonged to Indians before the great voyage. 1508, Spanish Leon arrived on the island. He quickly expelled and occupied Native Americans, and Puerto Rico became a Spanish colony. /kloc-at the end of 0/9, the increasingly powerful United States began to expand its territory, but by this time the world had been divided up by several old empires, and the United States could only expand if it seized colonies from other countries.

Compared with the powerful Britain and France, Spain's strength is not as good as before. From 65438 to 0898, the United States, a long-term Spanish colony, seized this opportunity and launched the Spanish-American War. The fate of the colony has never been controlled. The Spanish-American War ended with the victory of the United States, and the colonial rule of Puerto Rico changed hands between two western empires. In fact, in the Spanish-American War of 1898, the American booty was not only Puerto Rico, but also the Philippines and Guam. At that time, Americans were very willing to make the Philippines a state of the United States. Since the founding of the United States, the United States has shown great interest in expanding its territory. At that time, in order to compare Britain with the colonies all over the world and keep the United States from falling, Americans almost took the Philippines back from the colonies and officially became a state of the United States.

It's just that Filipinos are crazy, died in America and have been engaged in the independence movement. The situation in Puerto Rico is completely different. Puerto Rico is not small, not big. He is said to be very small because his country is very small and has a small population, which determines that he cannot be a country that can compete with or fight against the United States. He said he was big. Puerto Rico has a population of 6.5438+0.899 million, which is much more complicated than the overseas assets of the United States in Guam. It is much more difficult for local residents to accept American rule than to take care of Guam, a big island with only four or five towns in China. Timid Americans put forward a concept, namely American autonomous prefecture, and applied it to the status of Puerto Rico. At present, only Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are considered as American autonomous states. After World War II, the latter has gradually changed from American trusteeship to American autonomous prefecture. Therefore, the concept of American autonomous state was originally established to solve the problem of Puerto Ricans.