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Benevolence The island of Guam was ceded to the United States as spoils of the Spanish-American War by way of the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain of 1898, otherwise known as the Treaty of Paris. ... Ecological studies of Guam have even shown that the island's water table will not be able to sustain more than 250,000 people. ... The Insular Cases suggested a willingness to accord considerable impact to the fact of racial difference: "It is obvious in the annexation of outlying and distant possessions grave questions will arise out of differences of race, habits, law...
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