Why is Puerto Rico not part of the United States of America?

Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America? She sits in an in-between limbo, neither a state or an independent nation. So how did Puerto Rico become owned by, but not part of America? Follow me on twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Further Reading and Watching: 99PI Guano Mania: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/guano-mania/ SciShow, The World's Bird Poop Obsession:    • The World's Bird Poop Obsession   Is Puerto Rico Part of the U.S.?: www.puertoricoreport.com/puerto-rico-part-u-s/#.WN… Chronology, Spanish–American War: www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronology.html De Lome letter: www.worldhistory.biz/modern-history/86826-de-lome-… DOWNES v. BIDWELL: caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/182/244.html Music: "Tango de Manzana" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Jazz in Paris by Media Right Productions (YouTube Music Library)

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