March 31, 1917: US Military Takes Over Danish Occupation of Virgin Islands
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US Military Takes over Virgin Islands from Denmark:
Previously known as the Danish West Indies of the Kingdom of Denmark–Norway (from 1754 to 1814) and the independent Kingdom of Denmark (from 1814 to 1917), they were sold to the United States by Denmark for $25,000,000 in the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies[7] and have since been an organized, unincorporated United States territory. The U.S. Virgin Islands are organized under the 1954 Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands and have since held five constitutional conventions. As with other territories in the United States the Virgin Islands elects a delegate who can participate in debates in the House of Representatives but can not vote.[10]