American Samoa: The Southernmost U.S. Territory with Ashley Spivey

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon talks with social activist Ashley Spivey about how American Samoa became a U.S. territory. While we all grew up learning facts about states in our history and government classes, U.S. territories are often left out of the conversation. Sharon talks about how American Samoa became of interest to the U.S., and how the South Pacific Ocean archipelago is represented in government. Of course, no Sharon Says So episode would be complete without a few fun facts, and Sharon has plenty to share about this tropical territory!

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, thank you for joining me today.
0:04.0	Listen, people have questions about how did we end up with all these territories and
0:09.9	protectorates. Are they U.S. citizens? Do they have representation in Congress? Like, how did
0:15.6	American Samoa even get to be American Samoa? So today I'm chatting with my friend
0:21.4	Ashley Spivey, and I'm going to tell you exactly how it came to be.
0:25.4	So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:31.8	I'm so excited to have my friend Ashley here today.
0:36.0	Thank you so much for doing this.
0:38.0	I know we have been talking for a long time
0:40.0	and people have been bugging me to have you on,
0:42.0	bugging you to come on.
0:44.3	So yay, we're doing it.
0:46.2	No, I was honestly so honored whenever I got the email because people had been sending me
0:51.9	messages asking if I was gonna come on and I was like,
0:55.0	tell people, just give people a little overview of what you do.
0:57.8	Oh, wow, okay, so this is kind of hard to explain, but I'm a nanny. I've been a nanny for wow over 15 years at this point.
1:08.6	I feel like I have a presence on social media because I was on a reality show called The Bachelor,
1:14.0	but we can just forget about all that.
1:17.0	I am barely memorable on the show.
1:20.0	I have tried to use my platform to get people to read, to donate blood, to sign up for Be the Match.
1:29.0	I also encourage people to do things like vote in local elections, sign up to be an election worker.
1:36.9	Yes. Just small actions that make a big difference.
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