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Members:
Luke E. Wright
Henry C. Ide
Dean C. Worcester
Bernard Moses
A. The Taft Commission
In 1905: Governor-General.
His policy “the Philippines for the Filipinos” made him popular among
the Filipinos.
4. Executive power would be exercised by the Civil Governor who would have
several executive departments under him such as Interior, Public Information,
Finance and Justice, and Commerce and Police.
They could speak out for or against any bill in Congress affecting
the Philippines.
E. Resident Commissioners
Sponsored by U.S.
Representative William
Judicial Power: Chief Justice (Filipino) and associate justices (Filipino and
American)
Appointed by the President of the United States.
G. The Jones Law of 1916
On October 3, 1916, elections were held for the new Philippine
Legislature.
Warren G. Harding
H. The Wood-Forbes Mission
Gen. Leonard Wood and Gov. Gen. W. Cameron Forbes stayed in the
Philippines for four months.
In October 1921, the mission submitted its report to the president that
the Filipinos were not yet prepared for independence and U.S. should
not yet grant independence to the Philippines.
H. The Wood-Forbes Mission
Harry B. Hawes
I. The OSROX Mission
The U.S. Congress repassed the bill on January 17, 1933 known as the
Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act.
The Antis were those who sided with Quezon in opposing the law.
The Pros were those who supported the law and backed Osmeña and
Roxas.
I. The OSROX Mission
The law’s provisions on trade relations were
disadvantageous to the Philippines.
A. Education
B. Religious Developments
C. Rise of the Aglipayan Church
SOCIAL PROGRESS
A. Education
Spain
1. Christianizing the pagan natives was more
important than giving them an education.
2. It was only in the closing of decades of Spanish
rule that some system of public school education
was introduced by Spain in the Philippines.
United States
1. “to educate, to train in the science of self-
government”
2. Americans made it a policy to teach English to the
Filipinos.
A. Education
A. Education
A. Education
In January 1901, the Taft Commission enacted Act No. 74 which
established the Philippine public school system.
On August 23, 1901, the first group of 600 teachers from the United
States arrived in Manila on board the transport ship Thomas.
Those who finished high school could take up higher education in a public
junior college or at the University of the Philippines which was created in
1908 by Act No. 1870 enacted by the Philippine Assembly and the
Philippine Commission.
By 1935, there were 1,229,242 students enrolled in 7,330 public schools throughout
the country.
The private schools, which numbered about 400, had a total student population of
97,500.
B. Religion
Introduction of Protestantism
The Protestants sought to win the Filipinos through friendly persuasion.
Presbyterians (1899)
Baptists (1900)
Spain could not do for the Philippines in over 300 years, the
United States did in less than 50 years.
14,000,000
12,000,000
10,314,310
10,000,000
7,635,426
8,000,000
6,000,000
6,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,000
0
1898 1903 1918 1939
D. New Land Policy
All lands had to be registered, and their owners got Torrens titles.
E. Agricultural Increase
Modern farm tools from the United States were also introduced.
E. Agricultural Increase
The statistics are summed up as follows:
Copra,
Type Growth 9 9x increase
Forest logs 6x 2
Sugar 6x 1
0
Copra 9x Total area Farm Abaca and Corn Rice Forest Sugar Copra
of farms Animals Tobaco Logs
F. Free Trade with America
Most important economic change
Retail trade inside the Philippines also doubled from, 1907-1935. Filipinos had
more money to buy different things, however, they liked to buy imported goods.
H. New Industries
Marikina: shoes
The telephone and telegraph system in our country was the best in Asia.
The Philippine budget was balanced even during the Great World
Depression in the 1930s.
Rural credit groups for farmers helped to reduce usury in the provinces.
K. New Banks
L. International Exhibitions and Meetings
The Philippines was projected into the world’s limelight because of its
participation in international exhibitions, conferences, and meetings.
The Philippine Army Band became the world-famous at the Golden Gate
Exposition, held at San Francisco, California in 1939.