Four monthes after the spanish-American war started Puerto Rico was imperialized by the US. Puerto Rico made minor resistance when General Nelson A. miles and 3,300 troops came and took their land, Puerto rico was imperialized on July 25th. On july 26th Puerto Rico sued the US for peace. puerto rico and the US made negotiations for two weeks until an armastice was sighned. With this armastice the US was annnexed from Puerto rico and an island on the marines. Puerto Rico prefered to sighn an armastice rather then go into wqar because they thought that fighting in a huge war against the US was futile