In the end, the annexation of the Philipines caused unhappiness in the both the Philipines and in the United States. Filipinos wanted idependence and Anti-Imperialist didn't want to take this from them. The United States should not have annexed…
Hedges and Sacco begin the book by discussing Whiteclay, a small incorporated village in Nebraska. The clients that come to Whiteclay primarily for alcohol are Native Americans from Pine Ridge, a reservation that is located in South Dakota. Hedges and Sacco were able to direct my attention into the lives of those in the Pine Ridge reservation by describing the problems with alcoholism and poverty that they face. Using the example of Long Wolf, they really gave me a feel for the hardships that Native Americans faced among their families. For Verlyn Long Wolf, her childhood experiences were dictated by physical, verbal, and sexual abuse. It upsets me that a girl has to go through such hardships at a young age. It was really striking that she was married and divorced around seven times and that all of them were abusive, except for one. The authors linked the vivid descriptions of rape and abuse back to the tragic history of white conquest. I think what really stood out to me about the Native Americans was when Hedges and Sacco talked about the Smithsonian museum…
Even before the Philippines were annexed by the U.S. there was tension between U.S. troops and Filipinos. One U.S. sentry shot a Filipino who was crossing a bridge. The situation deteriorated and eventually we entered into a war with the Philippines. It would take two years to settle this dispute, as compared to the four months needed to defeat the once powerful Spain. Though the U.S. had better arms, the guerilla warfare employed by the Filipinos left the Americans outmatched. Between 200,000 and 600,000 Filipinos died in the war, most from sickness and disease caused by the…
When Americans began to establish states as they moved westward, they had no consideration for Native Americans and believed them to insignificant. The exact same idea occurred about one hundred years later, with “criminal aggression”, which took place in the Philippines. The American Anti-Imperialist League argued that the blood of the Filipinos was on…
They were in a 400 million debt (Cuba) and U.S did not want any part of that XV. President takes advantage and decides to annex Hawaii A. 1893 sugar planters (American) ruled b y a man Sanford Dole overthrow the queen named Liliuokalani a. They were inspired to do this because of the Harrison-McKinley Tariff XVI. The War between Philippines and Americans A. Argument between the two ends up in gun fire B. Outcomes of the war (deaths) a. 4,000 americans were killed throughout this war. 3,000 were injured.…
The Spanish-American War, which began on Monday, April 25, 1898 and ended on Friday, August 12, 1898, was a conflict between the United States and Spain. It ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas, and the result was the United States acquiring territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. It was the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. U.S. attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions headed us towards involvement in the Philippine Revolution and then, in turn, to the Philippine–American War. Founders vs Progressives Should one intervene in another's affairs?…
The Filipino fight for independence had begun before the U.S. arrived. In 1896-97, a group of Filipinos led by Emilio Aguinaldo fought a war for independence, which ended in a truce. Filipino rebels retreated to Hong Kong, and in 1897 Dewey met with Aguinaldo there. Dewey knew that if war with Spain came, the U.S. Navy might need Filipinos as land-based allies. A U.S. war ship took Aguinaldo back to the Philippines in early 1898. Armed struggle…
Imagine fighting for freedom against a country that won’t listen to you and treats you with cruelty. You don’t have much military power, so this other, more powerful country helps you gain independance. However, as soon as you win, the country that helps turns around and puts you in the same situation, just with them instead of the original country. This is what it was like in the Philippines! Before the Spanish-American war, the Philippines were a territory of Spain, along with some other countries like Cuba and Puerto Rico. Spain mistreated the people of these territories. They moved them into camps, that had shelters with no roofs. If they didn’t get there in time, they were executed. The United States stepped in and went to war with Spain for the independance of these territories. When we won the war, we got control of these…
”TAKE up the White Man’s burden - Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives need;” Those are the words of Rudyard Kipling that are meant to describe the back then ubiquitous way of thinking that was called “The white man’s burden”.…
The “splendid little” Spanish-American War began in 1898 over American outrage abut Spanish oppression of Cuba. American support for the rebellion had been whipped up into intense popular fervor by the “yellow press.” After the “mysterious” explosion in February 1898 of the USS Maine, this public passion pushed the reluctant President McKinley into war, even though Spain was ready to concede on the major issues.…
Black soldiers have a very important part in the Civil War at the moment. They are fighting in the war because they need their freedom, the war is about slavery, and the Emancipation Proclamation is taking action.…
The Spanish-American War took place in “the spring and summer of 1898”, throughout the Pacific and Caribbean waters (“Spanish-American War”). The United States went to war with Spain for Cuban independence, yellow journalism in the role of publishing the De Lome letter, and the USS Maine sinking (Murrin 747,748). A consequence of the war was imperialism, that came along with the Treaty of Paris, which gave the United States the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guatemala (Roberts). Reformation of the U.S. Navy and Army were made because it was not prepared for this war and lost more men to disease and exposure than to the enemy (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). There was a group named the American Anti-Imperialist League who…
The Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War were ultimately inevitable for the United States. There are two reasons for this claim, the U.S. had decided…
when annexation was proposed. Indeed the Philippine insurrection against the U.S. was more costly in terms of money and American lives lost than had been the Spanish-American war. Nor was everyone in the U.S. in favor of Philippine annexation. Anti-imperialists claimed that the Philippines might involve us in a war in the Far East, and that forced annexation violated the traditional American belief in "government by the consent of the governed." American labor leaders joined in opposition to acquisition lest it lead to the introduction of cheap Philippine labor. American racism also rallied against acquiring…
Paul Kramer’s piece on racial imperialism was the idea that the war between the Philippines and United States was done mainly on the grounds of racism. General McReeve wrote, “That ever since the Americans had liberated their negro slaves they had been looking around for others and thought they had found them at last in the Philippines.” (G.M Pg. 129) This statement showed how the United States viewed the Philippines even before the war. The United States used their idea of civilization and imposed those ideas on other countries as well. Kramer also believed that “…races were characterized in part by the way they made war….” (Kramer…