alternate pacific

What if the United States ceded the Territory of American Samoa to the Independent State of Samoa? What would the reason for this be? What would the effects be of this?

Alternate 2006 2 24 March 2006 Armidale, New England, Australia 5:00 pm Someone arrived back at their room at one of the Colleges at the University of Armidale. Illia Faran turned on her radio as she put her lecture notes on the desk. It was on the UoA General Student Radio'caster. A song came...