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By Cody Copeland/Dec. 31, 2020 10:39 am EDT
Guam was one of a number of islands the United States acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War of 1898. Other acquisitions included Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, and the Northern Mariana Islands, an archipelago to which Guam belongs geographically, but no longer politically. But although it remains a U.S. territory today, the United States had a bit of trouble hanging on to Guam in the middle of the 20th century.
According to Britannica, human habitation of Guam goes back over 3,000 years, its first inhabitants most likely coming from Indonesia or the Philippines. By 800 CE, society on Guam had developed into a complex culture with communal housing and stone and shell tool work.