(s) Students will be able to: 1. Indicate why the Samoa islands were divided into two separate countries 2. Identify the years that Tutuila and Manu'a became a territory of the United States. 3. Identify the years that World War II took place in American Samoa. Background In 1872, Commander Richard W. Meade, USN, arranged a treaty with the principal chief on Tutuila, the Mauga , allowing the United States the exclusive right to develop a naval station at Pago Pago, but the United States Senate, going through one of its more isolationist phases, refused to ratify the agreement. The islanders, h