President of the Philippines

Activity 77 In 1898, the Americans won the Spanish American War, and signed the Treaty of Paris, which ceded both Cuba and the Philippines, among others, to the US for the sum of 20 million dollars. The two countries, which are both islands, have a tropical climate almost all-year round. They were both part of the Spanish empire for almost 400 years. Both Cuba and the Philippines have the natural resources nickel, cobalt, timber, salt, copper, and petroleum. Additionally, these nations are both well educated

better this great irregularity than universal squalor. Without wealth there can be no Maecenas.” In the speech addressed to a group of ministers by President William McKinley,"Decision on the Philippines” revealed the president’s view about the annexing of the Philippines. The United States took over the Philippines after the Philippine–American War. President William McKinley described the reason for taking over as “That we could not give them back to Spain - that would be cowardly and dishonourable;(2)

colonies fell into America’s hands and these two were The Philippines and Cuba.They made it clear that they are not going to annex Cuba so they chose The Philippines instead. Many Americans Believed annexing the Philippines was unfair and others thought it was an excellent idea because the Philippines did not know how to work for their own government. The Philippines should have been annexed by The United States because the Philippines did not have a stable government, they were weak which means

The Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902 was a little different than most insurgencies. Using Mao’s 3 phases of an insurgency, which I will break down below. The native demand for liberation from Spain had been building since the 1880s. In 1892 a poor warehouseman by the name of Andres Bonifacio organized a group called the Katiunan, hoping to drive the Spaniard’s out of the Philippines. As in other insurgencies, we are seeing groups coming together for the same objective, but not all insurgent

in the Philippines. I am not one to be interested in the government and its inner workings. I don’t watch the news, nor do I read the papers, but this topic is relevant to society and is appealing to me. While doing my research, I was shocked to know that the anti-political dynasty bill has already been a subject that has been debated on in the 1987 Constitutional Commission. Commissioner Vicente Foz started the debate when he proposed the prohibition of political dynasties in the Philippines. The

The Constitution of the Philippines (Filipino: Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas), Popularly known as the 1987 Constitution, is the constitution or the supreme law of the Republic of the Philippines. It was enacted in 1987, during the administration of President Corazon C. Aquino.[1] Philippine constitutional law experts recognize three other previous constitutions as having effectively governed the country — the 1935Commonwealth Constitution, the 1973 Constitution, and the 1986 Freedom Constitution.[2][3]

and Implications of the Philippine War against Illegal Drugs of the Duterte Administration "Duterte 's policy is counterproductive and doing the opposite: it is slaughtering people, it is making the retail (drug) market violent—as a result of state actions, extrajudicial killings and vigilante killings." – Vanda Felbab-Brown, urban violence and internal conflict expert at Brookings Institution Perhaps, Felbab-Brown pointed out something striking from the Philippine president 's strategy of confronting

civil government in Puerto Rico. The United States decided to govern the Philippines until they are able to govern themselves. President McKinley explained that giving the Philippines back to Spain would be "cowardly and dishonorable", giving the Philippines to France ore Germany would be bad business since they were our commercial rivals in the Orient6, and letting them govern themselves would lead to an anarchy. President McKinley said there is only no other options but to "take them all, and to

S history class. The Philippine-American War illicites a much tamer response, unless, of course, you’re asking a Filipino or a history buff. In fact, the Philippine-American War is often times referred to as ‘The Forgotten War’ for that very reason. Despite its lack of recognition amongst average Americans, the Philippine-American War wasn’t just some battle the U.S won years ago, some footnote in history that had no impact. It was so much more than that. While the Philippine-American War marked

countries wanted the same thing (freedom for the Philippines from American Imperialism) but in different ways.Imperialism is the building of empires in other countries by controlling their politics and economics. In the year 1899 the Philippines were under American Imperialism. William McKinley was America's President during this time period and since he did not grant the freedom of the Philippines he started the Philippine-American War. When President Emilio Aguinaldo heard about McKinley's decision