The Philippine Insurrection

“...We govern our children without their consent...Would not the people of the Philippines prefer the just, human, civilizing government of this Republic…” (Doc B, Albert J. Beveridge). I disagree with this black and white view of the world. The Filipinos are grown people capable of making the best decision for themselves. Children are not (due to their undeveloped frontal lobes). They do not need America to save them. They wanted freedom enough to attempt war with Spain, a global power, so they have earned that

Another victory through the Treaty of Paris was the possession of the Philippines. Though the Filipino independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo had aided in the defeat of Spain in 1898, USA refused independence to the Islands and a vicious three year war ensued. A civil government was created after the capture of Aguinaldo under William Taft and this showed a drastic change in American foreign policy. They could no longer justify interference with the excuse of the islands being within its sphere of influence but McKinley argued that America had the role to “uplift and civilize and christianize [Filipinos] as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died." McKinley was either unaware or simply chose not to inform the people that, except for some Muslim tribesmen in the south, the Filipinos were Roman Catholics, and, therefore, already Christians. In reality, the annexation of the Philippines was the centerpiece of the "large policy" pushed by the imperialist cabal to enlist the United States in the ranks of the great powers.

1899 marked the year when America set its sites from the Spanish to the First Philippine Republic plunging American into yet another war ending with the temporary annexation of the Philippine Islands spreading American imperialism to the Far East. Within one year of winning their independence from

The United States, in order to keep growing as a world power, did not have to govern other territories to be prosperous. The U.S. stressed that the Filipinos were incapable of self-government and that the United States had an obligation to civilize them. The United States could've found other means to increase its greatness and power. Means that are morally right and

The Philippines were fighting Spain for several years before America joined the war. The war took place in Cuba and on the waters of the Philippines in 1898 when the Americans joined the war. It ended with a victory for the Philippines and the Americans causing the Filipinos to receive their independence. Due to their victorious win the United States gained all of Spain’s territories. The U.S had to decide whether to give the islands back to Spain, give the Filipino their independents, or to annex the Philippines. The United States finally decided to annex the Philippines but they had to hold a treaty that needed to be signed by the U.S Sensates. A two-thirds majority vote was required for the treaty to be place and it passed by one vote. After the war ended there was a controversy if the U.S should or

Act of Toleration: This was made May 24th of 1689 as an act of Parliament. It granted freedom of worship to those of nonconformist faith, like Baptists and Congregationalists. They were allowed their own places of worship and their own teachers. This act was not all inclusive and left out Catholics and Unitarians. As a result, the preexisting social and political restrictions were kept in place. This was a small step for religious freedom, but the act still managed to slightly miss the mark. (http://www.britannica.com/event/Toleration-Act-Great-Britain-1689)

Canada has always been under a capitalist ruling regime for many years. The Canadian state, even as a colony of both England and France, went through mercantilist monopolistic practices that affected the lower working classes. During this period, the Church was powerful and was involved in the formulation of power. The state was fully supported by the Church and gained its wealth through illegal means with major benefits going to the aboriginal Canadian citizens. The rebellion or uprising was aimed at fighting capitalist regime introduced by foreigners, addressing high poverty levels and ensuring equitable distribution of resources among the Canadian citizens. This paper will explore the sharing of power between the citizens, Church, and government during the insurrectionary movement.

The bald red, white, and blue eagle of American Democracy is coming for you Phillipines, run while you can! Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, was so infatuated with the idea of democracy, and he wanted every country to have a little taste of American freedom! After America's victory in the Spanish American War, George Dewey and his 11,000 American troops marched into manila and were unsure whether to liberate or occupy the filipino people. Thinking the they were here to help, the Filipino rebels trusted the Americans, but were soon betrayed as Dewey decided to occupy the land. The United States had three choices to determine what they wanted to do with the Philippines: Give it back to Spain, Give the filipino people their freedom, or to annex the whole country itself. With much debate ranging from artists, influential citizens, and government officials, the US ultimately decided it would annex! The United States should not have annexed the Philippines but rather should have given them their independence. While others may think the annexation of the Philippines would have benefited them, what the Philippines really needed was

1765, Great Britain is 72 million pounds in debt due to The Seven Years War. To recover from

Throughout the years many historians have compilated and examined why Indian people were so desperate to gain back their independence from the British Empire during their rule over India, from 1612 to 1947. The reasoning can most definitely be found as the British discriminated against Indian people as they believe that they were inferior; it is no surprise that Indian people fought so hard for their independence. Throughout the British Raj, they placed and put forward unbelievably racist acts and laws which discriminated against Indian people. Which of course led to Indians to rebel against the British rule and which the British reacted with causing massacres. Explaining the nationalistic many India’s felt during the British Raj.

The Cabans revolt happened due to the religious issues such as governmental concessions to the Protestants and anti-seigniorial detestation in Aix, Manosque, Sisteron, Valensole, Arles, and Marseilles. In Provence, the majority of the country gentry remained Catholic, but Protestants dominated in towns such as Montauban, Nîmes, Montpellier, and Castres, in the Cevennes, the Pyrenees, and Dauphiné. Consequently, many Huguenots were murdered on the charges of conspiracy against their towns and the whole province became the ground of infamous forces of the Porcellets. The Catholic peasants, known as the Cabans , who had most to suffer amid this chaos, rose in turn and made a relentless war on all upper classes of society, both the Huguenots

On September 21, 1972, Marcos formally declared Martial Law on the Philippines. This declaration lead to several human rights violations done by the Marcos Regime. Political dissenters were jailed as ‘subversives’ often with no trial and no charges filed. Political detainees were killed and tortured. There was political unrest among the middle class and intellectuals. The book, “A Conjugal Dictatorship” by Primitivo Mijares, chronicles many atrocities committed by the government. They shut down the media and all the other ways of spreading information, meaning they had total control over what was being said about them. These are only part of all the controversial actions of the government. Little by little, even the rich and powerful were being persecuted by the Marcoses. The turning point was on August 21, wherein Ninoy Aquino was assassinated because of his influence over the Filipino people. Finally, on February 25, 1986, Ferdinand Marcos stepped down from presidency.

The revolts all began in Cavite, and the spaniards were killing innocent villagers to scare the others, to show them if they do rebel then they will end up like the dead. They were wrong, the villagers were angry and they created a huge movement called Kilusang Propaganda, they wanted to achieve the objective of being equal to the Spanish, not even kick them out. Due to the lack of finance and the leaders being so divided, the movement soon came to an end. The Second major movement called La Liga Filipina had they same goals, aiming for freedom in peace, but it came crumbling down when the leader, Jose Rizal was captured. Just when the Filipinos lost hope, a young man known by the name of Andrés Bonifacio came to lead a group that was not going to take no for an answer. Their only option to get their country back to normal was through violence, basically making them an army. The army was called, the “KKK”, abbreviated for

The Philippines security threat has been in danger for many years dating back to the establishment of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). MNLF sought to establish an autonomous Muslim region within the country. (Fowler, 2011) MNLF used guerilla style tactics against the country for several years before agreeing to a ceasefire with the Philippine government in 1976. (Fowler, 2011) As with many ceasefire agreements not everyone within the group was in favor of the deal therefore resulting in members establishing a separate group known as the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) which established the Islamist insurgency within the country. (Fowler, 2011)

What may have begun in the Philippines as a genuine effort to enact revolution and cosmopolitan change within a corrupt nation ended up being, in reality, only a slightly better presidency in a system which perpetuated a system of inequality and ill treatment of women rather than challenge the systemic and imbedded inequalities within. There was no moral revolution, and where the attempts were made through the government and other legal systems—as in the case of introducing jobs for former prostitutes to lift themselves from the lower classes—it did not succeed in changing the moral reality within the honor world of the Philippines. Perhaps, given the formula for Appiah’s revolutions, it genuinely could not have succeeded anyway; the lowest classes do not possess honor for their own sake—they are not ends in themselves—but rather for the sake of the honor of the upper classes, or indeed anyone in a class above them. In all three of the examples Appiah provides, behaviors and social customs which were previously considered honorable experience a process by which they become perceived as dishonorable, and each revolution comes at least partially in result of a negative association to a lower class. In the case of dueling, it ended in large parts when lower classes began to duel; foot binding in China began to stop when the lowest rural classes imitated wealthy aristocrats and made the practice ridiculous; the working class outcry resulted because the defining characteristic of