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From day one the United States has included both states and territories, with the territories treated differently. In 1940, when the Philippines was a U.S. possession, 19 million U.S. nationals ...
There are also commonwealths elsewhere in the United States and around the world. Maybe you first came across the term on a US history test or while watching a documentary.
President Donald Trump’s long-standing fixation on expanding the United States — refusing to rule out acquiring the Danish territory of Greenland and the Panama Canal by military coercion and ...