Convention.[14] The new government was meant to replace the Katipunan as a government‚ though the latter was not formally abolished until 1899. Aguinaldo was again elected President at Biak-na-Bato in November‚ leading the Biak-na-Bato Republic. Exiled in Hong Kong after the Pact of Biak-na-Bato‚ with the advent of the Spanish-American War he returned to the Philippines to renew revolutionary activities and formed a dictatorial government on May 24‚ 1898. Revolutionary forces under his command declared
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PALAWAN Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the western sector opposite the Visayan region. The main island‚ Palawan lies between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea and the size is 450 kilometres long and 50 kilometres wide. It is composed of long and narrow islands plus a number of other small islands surrounding the main island. The Calamianes Group‚ to the northeast consist of Busuanga Island‚ Culion Island and Coron Island. Durangan Island almost touches the western
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Annexation of the Philippines - Argument Against I reflect on our own Declaration of Independence that states "Governments are instituted among Men‚ deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." We went to the Philippines to protect them from Spain and now here we are doing what we were keeping Spain from doing to these people. I ask you...do we have their consent to annex them? Do they believe it is in their best interest to be annexed to our great country? And what measures
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Presidents of the Philippine Republic President | Birthday | Native Land | Term of Office | AKA/ Alias | Distinction | Greatest Achievement/ Legacy | Downfall | Cause of Death | Remarks | 1. Emilio Aguinaldo | March 22‚ 1869 | Kawit‚ Cavite | January 20‚ 1899–April 1‚1901 | Heneral Miong | * He was the youngest (at age 28) to have become the country’s preside * The longest-lived former president (having survived to age 94) | * Gained the freedom of the Philippines from the Spaniards
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Ferdinand Magellan‚ the Portuguese navigator explored the Philippines in 1521. Twenty-one years later‚ a Spanish exploration party named the group of islands in honor of Philip II of Spain. Spain retained possession of the islands for the next 350 years. The Treaty of Paris ceded the Philippines to the U.S. in 1899 after the Spanish-American War. Meanwhile‚ the Filipinos‚ led by Emilio Aguinaldo‚ had declared their independence. They initiated guerrilla warfare against U.S. troops that persisted
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Philippine Prehistory - The First Inhabitants - 40‚000 BP The Philippines is an archipelago of 7‚107 islands in the South China Sea situated between Taiwan to the north and Borneo to the south. Just 2‚000 of its islands are inhabited and only 500 are larger than a kilometre square. The nine largest islands of Luzon‚ Mindanao‚ Palawan‚ Panay‚ Mindoro‚ Samar‚ Negros‚ Leyte and Cebu make up 90% of the nation’s land area. Over the past two million years‚ the earth has undergone twenty cycles of glaciation
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After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898‚ Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. On February 4‚ 1899‚ just two days before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty‚ fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo who sought independence rather than a change in colonial rulers. The ensuing Philippine-American War lasted three years and resulted in the death of over 4‚200 American and over 20
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PHILIPPINE HISTORY CHAPTER 6 - THE BIRTH OF A NATION * WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROCLAMATION OF THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IN 1898? The significance of the proclamation of the Philippine independence is that the Philippines is finally free from the 333 years rule of the Spaniards. As we all know‚ the Spaniards colonized the country for the longest time. The Filipino people definitely wanted to be freed for the Spaniards and eventually their sense of nationalism has finally awakened
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Philipinne Folk Dances 1. SAYAW SA BANGKO This dance is native to the barrio of Pangasinan‚ Lingayen‚ Pangasinan‚ and demands skid from its performers who must dance on top of a bench roughly six inches wide. Performed on a top of a narrow bench. Dancers need good balance as they go through a series of movements that include some impressive acrobatic. COSTUMES : Men: camisa de chino with neckerchief around neck‚trousers rolled up‚ Women: Patadyong: Both are without
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The History of the Philippines The archipelago of the Philippine is made up of over 7‚100 islands and lies off the south coast of Taiwan and its Southeastern neighbors‚ Malaysia and Indonesia (Kittler & Sucher‚ 2000). The nation is surrounded by the South China Sea on the west and by the Pacific Ocean on the east. The Filipinos are descendants of migrants from Southeast Asia such as Indonesia and Malaysia who came to the islands in successive waves over many centuries and largely displaced
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