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Puerto Ricans recommended for U.S citizenship
President Theodore Roosevelt recommended that Puerto Rico become U.S citizens. -
Puerto Ricans get U.S citizenship
Puerto Ricans were made U.S citizens via the Jones Act. -
Ponce Massacre
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
On April 2, 1943, U.S Senator Millard Tydlings Introduced a bill for Congress calling for independence of Puerto Rico.