The Spanish-American War led to the Philippines being ceded to the United States in 1898. This sparked tensions between the U.S. and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting in the Philippine-American War from 1899-1902 as the U.S. took control of the colony. Over 100,000 American troops and tens of thousands of Filipino fighters were killed in the war. While resistance continued until 1913, the U.S. established civil government in 1901 and began establishing English as the primary language and implementing educational reforms over the next decade.
The Spanish-American War led to the Philippines being ceded to the United States in 1898. This sparked tensions between the U.S. and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting in the Philippine-American War from 1899-1902 as the U.S. took control of the colony. Over 100,000 American troops and tens of thousands of Filipino fighters were killed in the war. While resistance continued until 1913, the U.S. established civil government in 1901 and began establishing English as the primary language and implementing educational reforms over the next decade.
The Spanish-American War led to the Philippines being ceded to the United States in 1898. This sparked tensions between the U.S. and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo, resulting in the Philippine-American War from 1899-1902 as the U.S. took control of the colony. Over 100,000 American troops and tens of thousands of Filipino fighters were killed in the war. While resistance continued until 1913, the U.S. established civil government in 1901 and began establishing English as the primary language and implementing educational reforms over the next decade.
The Spanish-American war which started in Cuba, changed the history of the Philippines. Faced with defeat, the Philippines was ceded to the United States by Spain in 1898 after a payment of US $20 million to Spain in accordance with the "Treaty of Paris" ending the Spanish-American War. On May 1, 1898, the Americans led by U.S Navy Admiral George Dewey, in participation of Emilio Aguinaldo, attacked the Spanish Navy in Manila Bay. On June 12, 1898, Filipinos led by Emilio Aguinaldo declare independece. This declaration was opposed by the U.S who had plans of taking over the colony. And this led to a guerrilla war against the Americans.
The Philippine-American War 1898-1946
Hostilities broke out on February 4, 1899, after two American private son patrol killed three Filipino soldiers in San Juan, a Manila suburb. This incident sparked the Philippine-American War, which would cost far more money and took far more lives than the Spanish-American War. Some 126,000 American soldiers would be committed to the conflict; 4,234 Americans died, as did 16,000 Filipino soldiers who were part of a nationwide guerilla movement of indeterminate numbers. At least 34,000 Filipinos lost their lives as a direct result of the war, and as many as 200,000 may have died as a result of cholera epidemic at the war's end. Atrocities were committed by both sides. Aguinaldo dissolved the regular army in November 1899 and ordered the establishment of decentralized guerilla commands in each of several military zones. The revolution was effectively ended with the capture (1901) of Aguinaldo by Gen. Frederick Funston at Palanan, Isabela on March 23, 1901 and was brought to Manila. Free trade, established by an act of 1909, was expanded in 1913. Influenced of the uselessness of further resistance, he swore allegiance to the United States and issued a proclamation calling on his compatriots to lay down their arms, officially bringing an end to the war. However, sporadic insurgent resistance continued in various parts of the Philippines, especially in the Muslim South until 1913.
U.S. Colony
Civil government was established by the Americans in 1901, with William
Howards Taft as the first American Governer-General of the Philippines English was declared the official language. Six hundred American teachers were imported aboard the USS Thomas. Also, the Catholic Church was disestablished, and a substantial amount of church land was purchased and redistributed. Some measures of Filipino self-rule were allowed, however. An elected Filipino legislature was established in 1907.