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Guano Islands Act


The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

That act gave the country “permission” to claim sovereignty over any allegedly uninhabited or unclaimed territory to secure access to guano, a prized fertilizer for American tobacco, cotton and wheat fields.