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title: "What allowed the United States to claim American Samoa?"  
description: "What allowed the United States to claim American Samoa?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-05-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43183/what-allowed-the-united-states-to-claim-american-samoa  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What allowed the United States to claim American Samoa? 

What allowed the [United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41822/what-was-the-costliest-battle-in-the-history-of-the-united-states-marines-corps) to claim [American](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41823/how-much-did-the-vietnam-war-cost-american-taxpayers) Samoa? \
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