ThePhilippineWar

Essay- The Philippine War 1899-1902 The conflict was about, how America wanted to Americanize and assimilate the Philippines, but the Philippines didn’t want to be. They didn’t want the Americans help; they just wanted to be an independent country. A young man by the name of Emilio Aguinaldo organized an independence movement to drive out Spain and help the Americans in 1896. Emilo Aguinaldo thought that the Filippino people were fighting for their independence, but they were wrong. When the Spanish surrendered to the Americans he proclaimed Filippino independence. After the treaty between Spain and America, the Philippines were given to the United States. In 1899 Aguinaldo was frustrated with this so, he ordered his rebel force to attack Manila, the Americans main base. The Filippino people used guerrilla warfare tactics, which are, savage and made up of ambushes, massacres and retribution. They burned houses and villages and the fighting went on for three years until 1902. Up to almost the end of the war, American Forces captured Emilio Aguinaldo. Emilio passed away in 1964. The war officially ended with the Philippine Government Act, which said that the President of the United States would elect a governor from America to run the Philippines, but letting the Filippino people make a small assembly of made up of Filippino people. Presdient McKinley also promised eventual self government to the Filippino people. In the Treaty of Paris (1898) the United States acquired Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico for 20 million dollars. The people living in the Philippines fought against U.S. rule for independence.

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