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List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States; Lists of U.S. county name etymologies; List of place names of French origin in the United States; List of place names of German origin in the United States; List of place names of Native American origin in the United States; List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places
The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, [1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, [2] the Spanish Cession, [3] the Florida Purchase Treaty, [4] or the Florida Treaty, [5] [6] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico ().
USAGov en Español (formerly GobiernoUSA.gov) is the official portal of the United States Government in Spanish. It is the sister site of USA.gov, the official portal of the U.S. Government in English. USAGov en Español provides official U.S. Government information and services in Spanish in a user-friendly way.
At the conclusion of the Spanish–American War, under terms of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the United States acquired control over Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. [21] Prior to signature of the treaty, all persons born in US possessions had been collectively naturalized by the United States.
The term Hispanic has been the source of several debates in the United States. Within the United States, the term originally referred typically to the Hispanos of New Mexico until the U.S. government used it in the 1970 Census to refer to "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race."
The Hispanic and Latino American proportion of population in the United States in 2010 overlaid with the Mexican–American border of 1836. The Reconquista ("reconquest") is a term to describe an irredentist vision by different individuals, groups, and/or nations that the Southwestern United States should be politically or culturally returned to Mexico.
Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite) [a] and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname.