Country Project 2 P.R

Puerto Ricans recommended for U.S citizenship

Dec 11, 1906

President Theodore Roosevelt recommended that Puerto Rico become U.S citizens.

Puerto Ricans get U.S citizenship

Mar 2, 1917

Puerto Ricans were made U.S citizens via the Jones Act.

Ponce Massacre

Mar 21, 1937

On March 21, 1937, a march lead by Pedro Albizu Campos with the Puerto Rican Nationalist party killed 19 people and injured 200 people in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Independence of Puerto Rico

Apr 2, 1943

On April 2, 1943, U.S Senator Millard Tydlings Introduced a bill for Congress calling for independence of Puerto Rico.