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The Philippines Conflict. When the Spanish-American War ended President McKinley was faced with the urgent problem of what to do with the Philippines. 1898 political cartoon from the Minneapolis Tribune 1. What symbols or people do you see in the cartoon?
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The Philippines Conflict When the Spanish-American War ended President McKinley was faced with the urgent problem of what to do with the Philippines.
1898 political cartoon from the Minneapolis Tribune 1. What symbols or people do you see in the cartoon? 2. Why do you think the Philippines is represented by a native child? 3. What do you think is the meaning of the sign and the cliff? 4. What point do you think the cartoonist is trying to make?
U.S. business interests saw the Philippines as a stepping-stone to the markets in China
McKinley reasoned that the Filipinos were unready for self-government and would be gobbled up by other imperial powers
McKinley was convinced that American rule would benefit the Filipinos. He explained that America’s mission was “to educate the Filipinos, and to uplift and civilize and Christianize them”
In 1896 Emilio Aguinaldo organized a Filipino independence movement to drive out the Spanish. When the Spanish surrendered in 1898 Aguinaldo proclaimed Filipino independence and drafted a democratic constitution.
Feeling betrayed when the peace treaty ceded his country to the United States, Aguinaldo ordered his rebel force to attack the Americans By the end of 1898 the initial Filipino resistance had been crushed
Aguinaldo was captured in March 1901, but large-scale guerrilla fighting went on through the summer of 1902.
The subjugation of the Philippines followed years of expansionism that proclaimed America’s debut on the world stage. To stabilize relations in the Philippines, Congress passed the Philippine Government Act in 1902, which vested authority in a governor general to be appointed by the president.
