Have you ever wondered about the status of U.S. dependencies like American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam? The Washington Post has a video which explains the various ways in which different groups of these islands relate to our nation.
The WaPo video is a good, quick treatment of the subject. It turns out there are more of these islands than you are ever likely to read about in the MSM, the so-called "guano islands" for instance.
