Filipinos fought alongside Americans for independence just as the Americans fought for headlines. After the USS Maine exploded the press blamed Spain. Which lead the United States into to war with Spain for their cruelty towards Cubans. The Cubans and Filipinos fought alongside Americans for their freedom from Spain. Which led to the United States winning the Spanish-American war and the Rough Riders receiving credit in headlines for African Americans achievements. The U.S liberated Cuba and had a decision to make about the Philippines. Should the United States annex the Philippines? To annex an area means to add to one’s territory. The U.S should not have annexed the Philippines because it would “kill the spirit of 1776,” annexation would …show more content…
documents. As document A paragraph 1 states annexing the Philippines would “extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands.” The “spirit of 1776” referred to the Declaration of Independence. This historical document declared the United States independence from a colonizing nation. Comparing U.S. independence to the annexation of the Philippines is similar because they are annexing the very thing they fought for . Also, the U.S should not annex the Philippines to “better educated them”. As Document D paragraph 2 states “we dare not educate them lest they learn to read the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States and mock us for our inconsistency.” This means that if the United States educates them they will see how the U.S. contradicted their own beliefs. The Declaration of Independence is a founding document that gave the United States its independence from colonizing nations. Therefore, the United States should understand the Philippines desire for the same …show more content…
Document A states that “no man is good enough to govern another man without other’s consent. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government, but when he governs himself and also governs another man… that is despotism.” Despotism is rule by tyrant. This was recounted by Abraham Lincoln a famous world leader and former U.S President. Lincoln fought for equal rights of white people and African American people. This is similar to the governing of the Filipinos because the U.S wants to annex the Filipinos and put them under their government regulations to benefit their goal of world power and expansion. The Filipinos did not give consent because they were under the impression that while they were fighting alongside the Americans they would be liberated as Cuba was. But instead they fell into the insatiable hands of the United States. Furthermore, Document D states “it is not necessary to own people in order to trade with them.” This relates back to document A because we do not need to govern or own the Filipinos as the U.S. did with slaves to trade with them to improve our businesses and markets. Therefore, the United States cannot govern the Philippines because they do not give their
Dear fellow senators: Yesterday, February 6, 1899 was a big day in United States history; we decided as a nation to annex the Philippines. The Philippines is an island country in Southeast Asia, and was independent until 1565 when the Spanish colonized the islands. I have one question for you, my fellow senators, should the U.S. have annexed the Philippines? The United States should have annexed the Philippines for three reasons: our duty to spread the values of democracy overseas, the Filipinos natural inability to govern themselves, and saving the Philippines from the tyranny of Spain or other European countries. The first reason the United States should have annexed the Philippines is because it is our duty as a country to spread the values of democracy overseas.
In my opinion The United States ordeal with Annexing the Philippines and the idea that we had of going into war with them was great mistake and should have been avoided. The Filipinos and Americans were deadlocked in war with each other. This all became a controversy with the two nations in 1898 when the Treaty of Paris between Spain and the United Stated ceded all seven thousand islands of the Philippine archipelago to the United States, for just a mere twenty-million dollars. Congress had approved the treaty with Spain, by February of 1899. Mckinley was on the verge of calling for the annexation of the Philippines which brought on a bloody two year struggle. In my opinion the United States was the cause of all of this because of three different reasons, for one our government would not...
) Miss Columbia’s School House at 1894 and Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines at 1899 illustrates the perception of being foreigners among the Americans. Among the short male figures outside the gates, is Hawaii (the men is carrying the Hawaiian flag) and Alaska. Around the 1950’s, the two states became part of America. Miss Columbia is the teacher and is in charged among the students. But inside the school house there is somewhat chaos happening with the different diverse people. An African American is running away from the school because a white male is stabbing him with some type of weapon. In 1865, slavery was outlawed but segregation was still permitted until 1964. African American were treated poorly among
... Americans built roads, schools, bridges, and sewers. Filipino self- rule had gradually increased and finally declared their independence on July 4, 1946. However, compared to Cuba and Puerto Rico, American rule has a lesser impact on the Philippine economy. The United States invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines not to gain wealth, but for the purpose of getting trades.
Narrative History of Texas Annexation, Secession, and Readmission to the Union. Texans voted in favor of annexation to the United States in the first election following independence in 1836. However, throughout the Republic period (1836-1845) no treaty of annexation negotiated between the Republic and the United States was ratified by both nations. When all attempts to arrive at a formal annexation treaty failed, the United States Congress passed--after much debate and only a simple majority--a Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States. Under these terms, Texas would keep both its public lands and its public debt, it would have the power to divide into four additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so desired, and it would deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the United States government.
Actions taken in Cuba and the Philippines could not and did not give equal weight as a motive to commercialism, nationalism, humanitarianism, and racism. Trade and business in the United States motivated the war. The US also wanted to emerge as an imperialistic power and saw a great opportunity to take over other lands. In analyzing all of the facts, it is clear that nationalism, the desire to be a world wide power, and advance commercial interests were the primary factors that led to the declaration of war on Spain.
During the Spanish American war, many people were divided over the topic of imperialism. Ultimately, many benefits came with the US territory expanding. Not only did the US get bigger, but many aspects of our nation improved significantly. American expansion abroad was justified because it helped the military and economy advance greatly.
THESIS : “ The United States didn’t want to get involved in the Spanish-American War, but was dragged into it due to yellow journalism, they wanted to control the seas, and wanted complete control over Cuba.”
In 1898, in an effort to free Cuba from the oppression of its Spanish colonizers, America captured the Philippines. This brought about questions of what America should do with the Philippines. Soon, controversy ensued both in the American political arena as well as among its citizens. Throughout its history, America had always been expansionistic, but it had always limited itself to the North American continent. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, however, there emerged a drive to expand outside of the continent. When America expanded to the Philippines, the policy it followed was a stark break from past forms of expansionism. Despite much controversy, America followed the example of the imperialistic nations in Europe and sought to conquer the Philippines as an imperialist colony that they would rule either directly or indirectly.
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, Imperialism was a popular trend among the large, powerful countries. Imperialism is defined as “The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations”. Imperialism cannot be said as either good or bad, but as a general rule: If you live in an annexed country, imperialism is not good, if your country annexes smaller ones to gain profit, land, and respect, then imperialism is good. The United States was not much of an imperialistic country until we won the Spanish-American war. As a result of this war, we annexed Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” said by Martin Luther King while in Birmingham Jail on April 16, 1963. A quote easily related back to the Filipinos who struggled for independence from the United States during the Cold War. Influenced by the patronizing relationship with the United States throughout history, the economic and political evolution of the Philippines has been controlled by the dependence between the two allied countries. In 1898, the United States took special interest in the economic opportunities in the Philippines; it was en route to China, contained a hearty supply of sugar and rice, and most importantly, because of the fear of losing the Philippines to rival countries, Germany and Japan. With the United States’ interest in mind the Spanish agreed to cede the Philippines to America after a payment of 20 million dollars. Therefore, the U.S took back its promise of liberating the Philippines from being a colonized country. Angered by this betrayal, the Philippine Republic declared war on the US, commencing the American-Philippine war, which lasted from 1899 to 1902. In 1942, as the United States began establishing military bases in the Philippines, a communist guerrilla group named Hukbalahap (also known as the Huks)- began to branch out from only anti-Japanese activities to fighting against the American military. While fighting the Japanese, the United States found a way to also dismember the Huks by imprisoning high ranking members, mentally and physically torturing Filipino members, and passing laws in 1957 outlawing both the Communist party and the Huks in the Philippines. This sequence of events shortly followed the surrender of Huk Leader, Luis T...
The first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived from the land bridge from Asia over 150,000 years ago. Throughout the years, migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other parts of Asia made their way to the islands of this country. In the fourteenth century, the Arabs arrived and soon began a long tradition of Islam. Many Muslims are still living in the Philippines today.
I don’t believe the Philippine War was justified. There are more ways than war to solve the annexation of the Philippines. I agree on some of the policies, but not all of the policies, that were in place during that time period.
The Philippines were first discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. It then became a colony of Spain from the late 1500's until the end of the19th century when the United States came intervened. The colonial rule of the Spanish ended in December 1898 after the United States intervened due to a popular rebellion that had broken out two years earlier. Under the United States colonial rule, democratic institutions were introduced, and the Filipinos took over all the political and bureaucratic positions. In 1934 the Philippines became an internally self governing commonwealth, with full independence from the United States scheduled for July 4, 1946. The independent republic mainta...
Despite of these negative reactions, we as a Customs Administration students strongly believes that the Balikatan Exercises between the Philippines and the Unites States will give and provide job opportunities to many Filipinos in construction activities that they will done in our nation specially the procurement of local goods and supplies by US military personnel. This will also helps our country to nurture and strengthen our capabilities for any external and territorial defense when the situation demanded. We already know that we are currently experiencing from territorial disputes from other foreign countries specifically with China and the Balikatan Exercises will help to develop our defense securities against them.