and Saint Croix) by the United States for $25 million in gold, as part of a defensive strategy to maintain control over the Caribbean and the Panama Canal during the First World War. U.S. citizenship was granted to the residents of St. Thomas in 1927 and the U.S. Department of the Interior took over adm

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