American

American Period

The American Colonization in the Philippines

The Spanish-American

war

which started in Cuba,

changed

the history of the

Philippines.

Faced with defeat,

the Philippines

was ceded to the

United

States by Spain

in 1898

after a payment of

US$ 20

million to Spain in

accordance

with the "Treaty of Paris"

ending the

Spanish-American War.

On May, 1898, the

Americans led by U.S.

Navy Admiral George

Dewey,

in participation

of Emilio Aguinaldo,

attacked the

Spanish Navy in

Manila Bay.

On June 12,1898,

Filipinos led by

Emilio Aguinaldo

declare Independence

The Philippine- American War (1898- 1946)

Hostilities broke out on February 4,1899, after two American private son patrol killed three Filipino soldiers in San Juan, a Manila suburb.

This incident sparked the Philippine-American War, which would cost far more money and took far more lives than the Spanish-American War.

Atrocities were committed by both sides.

Aguinaldo dissolved the regular army in November 1899 and ordered the establishment of decentralized guerriila commands in each of several military zones.

The Philippine- American War (1898- 1946)

During the Spanish period the Spaniards had given enormous land properties to the Catholic church. One of the first things thr Americans did was to take care for the redistribution of this land properties.

To do so they first had to pay an amount of US $7.2 million to the Vatican in 1904.

The small farmers or tenants didn't get any land however. The land became property of some large landowners.

Most of the small farmers couldn't pay the asked price or couldn't prove that they were the former owners of the land.

The Road Towards Philippine Independence

1. Jones Law- the law was approved by

President Woodrow Wilson after it was proposed

by William Atkinson Jones, an American congressman.

The law stated the right of the Filipinos to

attain freedom in the near future.

2. Tydings- McDuffie Act- this law was proposed

by Milliard Tydings- and congressman

John McDuffle of the US. It stated the 10-year

preparation for the Philippine Independence

through a commonwealth government.

The Road Towards Philippine Independence

In 1934, the United States Congress, having originally passed the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act as a Philippine Independence Act over President Hoover's refusal, only to have the law rejected by the Philippine legislature, finally passed a new Philippines Independence Act, popularly known as the Typings-Mcduffie Act. The law provided for the granting of Philippine Independence by 1946.

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The Commonwealth Government

The Hare -Hawes Cutting Act, passed by Congress in 1932, provided for complete independence of the islands in 1945 after 10 years of self-government under U.S. supervision.

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On May 14, 1935 an election to fill the newly created office of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines was won by Manuel L. Quezon and a Filipino government was formed on the basis of principles apparently similar to the US constitution.

The Commonwealth Government

The new government embarked on an ambitious agenda of establishing the basis for national defense, greater control over the economy, reforms in education, improvement of transport, the colonization of the island of Mindanao, and the promotion of local capital and industrialization.

The Commonwealth however, was also faced with agrarian unrest, an uncertain diplomatic and military situation in South East Asia, and uncertainty about the level of United States commitment to the future Republic of the Philippines.