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Located in the Pacific Ocean, this location was one of the three territorial acquisitions made by the U. S. In the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish-American War

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Representatives of Spain and the United States signed a peace treaty in Paris on December 10, 1898, which established the independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States, and allowed the victorious power to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain for $20 million.

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