Who The Dominican Republic got independence from? When?

Question

Is there a difference between the spanish spoken in the Dominican Republic and the spanish spoken in the U.S? little help here......

Answer 1

1. Dominican Republic independence

The independence question sounds simple, but the convoluted history of the Dominican Republic makes the answer less straightforward. This is how the eastern ⅔ of the island of Hispaniola has been effectively controlled:

1492 - 1697 Spain
1697 - 1809 France
1809 - 1821 Spain
1821 - 1822 Independent
1822 - 1844 Haiti
1844 - 1861 Independent
1861 - 1865 Spain
1865 - 1916 Independent
1916 - 1924 USA
1924 onwards Independent

Read the details here:
http://www.hispaniola.com/dominican_republic/info/history.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic

2. Differences between Dominican and US Spanish

Is there really an identifiable US Spanish? I would have thought it was spoken differently according to the various Hispanic communities resident in the country. Thus Cuban Spanish might predominate in Miami, and Mexican Spanish in Tucson. Having said that the differences are slight - there are different accents, and some different national words (e.g. in Cuba, bus is guagua, rather than autobus; in Venezuela, banana is cambur, rather than banana). However they all understand each other without problem - all variants of Latin American Spanish are much closer to each other, than to the language of the Spaniards.