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D. Rossello is the first governor to resign in the modern history of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of more than 3 million American citizens. The territory’s residents elect their governor and legislature but do not vote for U.S. president.. They also elect a non-voting representative to Congress called a Resident Commissioner.
C. In 1493, Christopher Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista, in honor of Saint John the Baptist, while the capital city was named Ciudad de Puerto Rico or "Rich Port City". Eventually traders and other maritime visitors came to refer to the entire island as Puerto Rico, while San Juan became the name used for the main trading port and the capital city.
B. The U.S annexed Hawaii in an 1898 treaty with a government set up by American businessmen who overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii five years earlier. The U.S. ambassador to Hawaii had helped those coup conspirators with an invasion by a company of U.S. Marines. The United States gained the other islands in the Treaty of Paris with Spain.
A. Cuba is the largest Caribbean island followed by Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Hostilities between the United States and Spain began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana harbor, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.