Important People
He is considered the Father of the motherland
Who is Ramón Emeterio Betances?
September 23, 1868
What is el Grito de Lares?
The struggles created spaced for people to imagine their national identity, called this, not puertorriqueños but...
What is Puertorriqueñidad?
The explosion of the USS Maine in La Habana caused this
What is the Spanish Cuban American War?
This institution was founded in 1903 to help aid the US occupation in PR, but it later became one of the island's most liberal places
What is the University of Puerto Rico?
These people were responsible for educating the working force by providing lectures while they worked
What are readers?
March 22, 1873
What is Emancipation of Slavery?
The notion of this sustained that the landowner (hacendado) was the protector and voice of all classes and races
What is the Great Puerto Rican family?
This event granted PR as a colonial territory to the US
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Some of these manifestations included burning sugar cane fields
What are strikes?
Descendant of Europeans, Educated, Anarcho-feminist, Lectora, Author of 4 books and a newspaper, La mujer
Who is Luisa Capetillo?
1848
When was the first piece of Puerto Rican literature created?
These colonies united in NYC to fight for independence and share a flag
What are Cuba and Puerto Rico?
This law instills a democratic government in PR and an odd PR citizenship
What is the Foraker Act of 1902?
Labor Union that stemmed from the Socialist Party
What is the Federación Libre de Trabajadores?
These people were excluded when the 19th Amendment was enacted, granting women the right to vote
Who are Puerto Ricans?
1897 - granted Puerto Rico a degree of autonomy from Spain
What is the Autonomous Charter?
These defined PR as belonging to, but not part, of the US
What are the Insular Cases?
Its methods included education, US holidays, Ways of life, History, English as the language of instruction and Porto Rico
What is Americanization?
This law, which most people are against, has all imported/exported products must be moved only via US ships
What is the Merchant Marine Act?
Many of their offspring studied abroad, mostly Europe and the US
What are Hacendados?
July 25, 1898
What is the US Invasion of Puerto Rico?
Absent corporation sustained this, impoverishing the people of PR
What is the monoculture of sugar?
This religious wing was introduced in PR
What is Protestantism?
This law granted PRicans US citizenship a month before entering WWI
What is the Jones Act of 1917?