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(group of islands in the ‘caribbean’)
(owned by the ‘united states’)
‘saint croix’
‘saint john’
‘saint thomas’
“emancipation day”
(3 july 1848)
(commemorates abolition of slavery on the islands by danish governor “peter von scholten”)
(the united states bought the islands from denmark in 1916)
(“treaty of the danish west indies”)
(the US feared that that germany would seize the islands as a submarine base in WWI)
(the US government bought the islands for $25 million)
(US citizenship was granted to the island’s inhabitants in 1927)
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(the ‘virgin islands’ are the western island group of the ‘Leeward Islands’, which are the northern part of the ‘Lesser Antilles’, and form the border between the ‘Caribbean Sea’ and the ‘Atlantic Ocean’)
(politically, the group is divided into the ‘British’, ‘Puerto Rican’, and ‘US’ Virgin Islands)
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(the ‘archipelago’ is separated from the ‘renaissance islands’ by the ‘anegada passage’ and from the main island of ‘puerto rico’ by the ‘virgin passage’)
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👈👈👈☜*“INHABITED AMERICAN TERRITORIES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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