1. Many groups come to the U.S. as immigrants. In the case of Puerto Ricans, the U.S.
came to them. Describe how the United States came to control the island of Puerto
Rico.
The large migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States took place after 1945 as a result of economic changes having to do with the transformation of the Island's economy from a monocultural plantation economy into a platform for export-production in factories.
