philippines american colony
Posted in Philippines General Information on 12/22/2005 12:55 am by admin
are the americans ever officially colonize the Philippines?
or will they only attempt to? I think the Philippines has never been an American colony.
Of course. But as there are "official" no Philippine-American War, as they call it less Philippine insurrection in the Philippines are high status of Spain, so consider the Philippines as a colony of the United States is not really hyped up as well. And you know, geography and politics play a large role and all that. But the number of Philippine-American War (1898-1930s) will keep the U.S. established a Civil government in 1901, to William Howard Taft as The first American Governor-General of the new colony. English was declared the official language, American teacher brought in, the U.S. Public School System and a health system is put in place, the Catholic Church was disestablished. Hollywood, Hotdogs, Basketball & Baseball was introduced. So the American policy since the Philippines is lifelong colony. But then for a change of heart if not a change of leadership in 1916, the Philippine autonomy Act, widely known as the Jones Law, was passed by the U.S. Congress - providing a way for ultimate independence of the Philippines in establishing a stable government. (Similar to what we have in Iraq today). The Filipino House of Representatives are elected, while the new Philippine Senate is the majority of its members elected Senators by district. When the Republicans regained power in 1921, the trend toward bringing Filipinos to the government is inverted. Gen. Leonard Wood, appointed governor-general, largely replaced Filipino activities with a semi military rule. However, the advent of the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s and the first aggressive moves by Japan in Asia (1931) shifted U.S. opinion significantly to the granting of immediate independence to the Philippines. 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 rejected the law of the Philippines Congress, finally passed a new Philippine Independence Act, popular known as the Tydings-McDuffie Act. And for 1935, Quezon was elected the first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines Quezon and a Filipino government is formed the basis of the principle seems similar to U.S. Constitution. During the Commonwealth years, the Philippines sent an elected Resident Commissioner to the United States House of Representatives, (such as Puerto Rico currently is now). As as mandated by the Philippine Independence Act, the U.S. granted Philippine independence in 1946. But that is another issue all together.
04/29/2011 at 1:01 pm
Great read , I’m going to spend more time reading about this topic