Men in the Philippines

uplift humanity and show all men of this world that all men are created equal. Senator Beveridge shined a positive light on the annexation of the Philippines in his speech in Congress on January 9, 1900 when he brought up the topic of the consumption of our surplus. He stated that “China is our natural customer…England, Germany and Russia have moved nearer to China by securing permanent bases on her boarders. The Philippines gives us a base at the door of all the East.” This essentially means that the Philippines provided the United States with a spot for more trading to be done and with more access to greater countries. It also provided…

and fishing as a way to retain their Filipino identity in the new land. Filipino community came together easily as they experienced the same cruelty from the Spaniard voyagers. Officially, Filipinos came to the US by being a plantation worker at Hawaii. The Philippines were initially colonized by the Spanish and after the Spanish–American War in 1898, the United States bought the Philippines.This…

Battle of Leyte Gulf took place in the Philippines and pitted Japanese and the United States naval forces against one another for command and control of the western Pacific region during World War II. The Philippines, to the United States, was another stepping stone closer to striking at Japan’s home island and also a vital staging point to wage war against Japan’s merchant supply line of valuable resources such as oil and fuel. Japan was required to defend the Philippines in the interest of…

Lodge, and Alfred T. Mahan. After failed attempts to trade with the Japanese during the mid nineteenth century, the United States gained a foothold in Asia by annexing the Philippines, which it had gained in the Treaty of Paris (1898) from Spain as a result of the Spanish defeat in the Spanish-American War. The people of the Philippines were excited, at first, about annexation because they wanted U.S liberation, protection, and freedom. The United States Government received push back from its…

Rico, Cuba, and even the Philippines. Two men who held opposing views on the United States occupying the Philippines were Emilio Aguinaldo and Albert J. Beveridge. Aguinaldo, originally born in the Philippines, led the “resistance to Philippine independence” during the Philippine-American War and was against the occupation of the Philippines by the U.S.. Beveridge, a U.S. Senator, historian, and orator gave “eloquent speeches” which encouraged U.S expansion overseas and the occupation of the…

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, the United States went to great lengths to expand its influence overseas. Fueled by the belief in imperialism, America expanded its global powers to Central America to places such as Puerto Rico, Panama, and the Philippines. The issue of whether or not the U.S should annex the Philippines struck a controversy and led to varying opinions of U.S expansion among Americans. Different understandings of America's identity as "the land of the equal" as…

the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the colonizing of the Philippines had already begun, and with that the influence of western society. Before the colonization of the Philippines in 1521 the roles women had were very different from what they would turn into when the Spaniards would come. Women held the major roles in society and were shamans, called baylans, of their belief system, Animism. This was much different from the social norms in the western world at the time, which saw women as…

Spain’s colonies that was in the Philippines. United States should not claim the Philippines and let them have their independence. This argument is from Document B and Document C. Documents C, show unfit for self-government they would be soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain was. “It was not clear whether they had come to liberate or occupy the Filipino” (Document C). Filipino insurgent has been fighting for their independence against Spain for several years, “the decisions…

333 years Spain controlled the Philippines as of her colonial Empire. The Pilipino people made multiple attempts to free themselves. They failed. In January 1889 the USS Maine was ordered to Cuba to protect US interests. On February 16th 1889, shortly after her arrival, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor killing over 250 men. The US was quick to blame Spain for the explosion. US citizens were whipped into an Anti-Spanish hysteria. Despite President McKinley’s desire to avoid war, the yellow…

women, the poor and basically the whole population of Europe to live in. With an unequal, unhealthy and unstable society, we can say that this period is a failure compared to today, or is ours a failure too? To compare and contrast the two I used the conditions of present-day Philippines. To start, we have social hierarchy and how the people under these classes stand in the society. In the Middle ages, people fall into three estates: The Aristocracy, The Clergy and The Peasantry. In the…