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Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: U.N. trust territory administered by the U.S.; included the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Philippines: military government, 1899–1902; insular government, 1902–1935; commonwealth government, 1935–1942 and 1945 ...
The islands had to be unoccupied and outside the jurisdiction of another government; the claims also had to be bonded before the U.S. government would consider them insular areas of the country. As of 2023 [update] , only the eight islands administered as the US Minor Islands and the ones now part of Hawaii and American Samoa remain under the ...
Puerto Rico: military government, 1899–1900; insular government, 1900–1952; became a commonwealth on July 25, 1952. Naval Government of Guam (1899–1950): island under Japanese occupation between 1941 and 1944; territory organized and civil government established by the Guam Organic Act of 1950.
Society in insular areas of the United States (15 C) Pages in category "Insular areas of the United States" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The Insular Government of the Philippine Islands [6] (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de las Islas Filipinas [7]) was an unincorporated territory of the United States that was established on April 11, 1899 upon ratification of the 1898 Treaty of Paris. [8] It was reorganized in 1935 in preparation for later independence.
The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States insular areas.It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, which administered certain territories from 1902 to 1939, and the Office of Territorial Affairs (formerly the Division of Territories and Island ...
Office of Insular Affairs, a unit of the U.S. Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several insular areas (and the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs). Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, the U.S. territorial government that was established in 1901 and was dissolved in 1935; Insular Region, Venezuela
In 1902, it became the Bureau of Insular Affairs. [2] As a result of the Insular Cases, the U.S. Attorney General issued an opinion in 1915 stating that the insular areas were unincorporated territories of the United States. In 1939, the bureau was replaced by the Division of Territories and Island Possessions in the Department of the Interior. [1]