For U.S. history, does anyone know what a protectorate is?

Answer 1

Definition:

Protectorate:pro·tec·tor·ate (prə-tĕk'tər-ĭt)
n..

Relationship in which one country exercises some decisive control over another country or region. The degree of control may vary from one in which the protecting state guarantees the safety of the other to one that is a disguised form of annexation. Though the relationship is an ancient one, the use of the term dates only from the 19th century. In modern times most protectorates have been established by treaties requiring the weaker state to surrender management of its international relations, thus losing part of its sovereignty.



Information specific to U.S. Protectorates:


What are the United States' protectorates? Is a United States protectorate the same thing as a United States territory?

Answer: A protectorate is a dependent area in which a metropolitan power has acquired control of the area's foreign relations and defense but which the metropolitan power has not annexed. The dependent area, thereby, is not under the sovereignty of the metropolitan power. Those born in such a dependent area, viz., a protectorate, are not nationals of the metropolitan power, and the area remains foreign for purposes of the metropolitan power's domestic law. Having said all this, I must add that the metropolitan power of a protectorate may exercise its jurisdiction - not sovereignty - in such an area in as ample a manner as if the metropolitan power had gained the area by conquest or cession. The United States does not have protectorates. Instead, the United States of America is the sovereign of fourteen insular areas. I have listed infra short definitions of these eleven terms:

commonwealth: An organized United States insular area, which has established with the Federal Government, a more highly developed relationship, usually embodied in a written mutual agreement. Currently, two United States insular areas are commonwealths, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico. A United States insular area from April 11, 1899, the Philippine Islands achieved commonwealth status on March 24, 1934 (Public Law 73-127), and remained as such until the United States recognized the Philippine Islands' independence and sovereignty as of July 4, 1946.

incorporated territory: Equivalent to Territory, a United States insular area, of which only one territory exists currently, Palmyra Atoll, in which the United States Congress has applied the full corpus of the United States Constitution as it applies in the several States.

insular area: A jurisdiction that is neither a part of one of the several States nor a Federal district. This is the current generic term to refer to any commonwealth, freely associated state, possession or territory or Territory and from July 18, 1947, until October 1, 1994, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Unmodified, it may refer not only to a jurisdiction which is under United States sovereignty but also to one which is not, i.e., a freely associated state or, 1947-94, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands or one of the districts of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

organic act: The body of laws that the United Congress has enacted for the government of a United States insular area; it usually includes a bill of rights and the establishment and conditions of the insular area's tripartite government.

organized territory: A United States insular area for which the United States Congress has enacted an organic act.

possession: Equivalent to territory. Although it still appears in Federal statutes and regulations, possession is no longer current colloquial usage.

sovereign: An independent or non-independent jurisdiction which itself possesses or whose people possess in their own right the jurisdiction's supreme authority, regardless of the jurisdiction's or people's current ability to exercise that authority.

Territory: An incorporated United States insular area, of which only one exists currently, Palmyra Atoll. With an area of 1.56 square miles, Palmyra consists of about fifty small islands and lies approximately one thousand miles south of Honolulu.

territory: An unincorporated United States insular area, of which there are currently thirteen, three in the Caribbean (Navassa Island, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands) and ten in the Pacific (American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, the Northern Mariana Islands and Wake Atoll).

unincorporated territory: A United States insular area in which the United States Congress has determined that only selected parts of the United States Constitution apply.

unorganized territoryAn unincorporated United States insular area for which the United States Congress has not enacted an organic act.

Answer 2

Some agencies of the United States government, such as the United States Environmental Protection Agency, still use the term protectorate to refer to insular areas of the United States such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as were the Philippines at the end of Spanish colonial rule. However, the agency responsible for the administration of those areas, the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) within the United States Department of Interior exclusively uses the term insular area rather than protectorate.

Answer 3

Neither will want it as a protectorate because of immigration issues. France has done more to cause strife over the las 200 years, but the US really screwed it over in the last 35 years by ruining the world sugar market, killing all the pigs in Haiti and trying to convert it from a food independent agrarian culture into a failed industrial urban culture. Haiti has often been cited as a lost cause. But much could be done simply by providing imported charcoal as a cooking fuel and reversint the US sugar quotas that have ruined the world sugar market. The US would not suffer because instead of growing corn to produce HFCS, they could be producing soy beans for export. Unortunately, the lobbyists do not see this as a plus for the US. I would say make it a French protectorate, but revise its economy so there are no trade barriers between it and the US. Sugar from the Dom Rep would also have to be unrestricted for export to the US since most of the sugar there is cut by seasonal Haitian workers.

Answer 4

A protectorate is an area that becomes protected by a nation through financial, technological and political influence. Its something like being protected in bankruptcy under Chapter 13 laws.

Answer 5

protectorate is a kind of conquering a small country or a land.
a country helps another country; like giving them support and protect them[from the word protectorate]
america used protectorate in guam, philippines and puerto rico to conquer them

Answer 6

well i think the panama canal was kinda a protectorate
maybe some of those south pacific nations were too
even though they were called terreritories.

Answer 7

All the advantages of statehood with none of the taxes.