2. Flag in Flag in 1895
1873-1875 (same flag today)
3. After Puerto Rico became a possession of the
United States, they assumed the role of taking
care of these “inferior people”.
4. General Nelson A. Miles-
• Moved 3,300 soldiers into Puerto Rico and
took the land; sued by the Spanish
government.
5. Manuel Macías y Casado
• Governor- General of Puerto Rico
• Declared Martial Law to resist the American forces
• Wanted Puerto Ricans to stay loyal to the Spanish Crown
6. DR. PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS
• President of Nationalist Party
• “Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement”
9. Quotes*
• “Providence will not permit that in these countries which were discovered by
the Spanish nation the echo of our language should ever cease to be heard,
nor that our flag should disappear before the eyes... Long live Puerto Rico,
always Spanish. Long live Spain.” –Manuel
• “So it is now. We cannot avoid the responsibilities that confront us in
Hawaii, Cuba, [Puerto] Rico and the Philippines.... The timid man, the lazy
man, the man who distrusts his country, the over-civilized man, who has lost
the great fighting, masterful virtues, the ignorant men, and a man of dull
mind, whose soul is incapable of feeling the mighty life that thrills „strong
men with empires in their brains‟” - Theodore Roosevelt
