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The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, and began with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April 1898, when the Philippines was still a colony of the Spanish East Indies, and concluded when the United States formally recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines on ...
During the American colonial period (1898–1946), a recorded number of more than 800,000 Americans were born in the Philippines. [11] [unreliable source] Other large concentrations of Filipinos with American ancestry outside Metro Manila are located in the areas of former US bases, such as the Subic Bay area in Zambales and Clark Field in ...
For the first year a military governor, Adna Chaffee, ruled parts of the country still resisting American rule, concurrent with civil governor William Howard Taft. [35] Disagreements between the two were not uncommon. [36] The following year, on July 4, 1902, the civil governor became the sole executive authority of the islands. [37]
During the 1935–41 period, the Commonwealth of the Philippines featured a very strong executive, a unicameral National Assembly, [53] [54] and a Supreme Court, [55] all composed entirely of Filipinos, as well as an elected Resident Commissioner to the United States House of Representatives (as Puerto Rico does today).
The caption at the bottom proclaimed, "Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines". 1902 Life magazine cover, depicting water curing by U.S. Army troops in the Philippines. Throughout the war, numerous atrocities were committed by the U.S. military, including the targeting of civilians.
The Philippines currently celebrates its Independence Day on June 12, the anniversary of Emilio Aguinaldo's declaration of independence from Spain in 1898. The declaration was not recognised by the United States which, after defeating the Spanish in the Battle of Manila Bay in May that year, acquired the Philippine Islands via the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish–American War.
January–September – Battle of Maguindanao; January 6–9 – Invasion of Lingayen Gulf; January 9–August 15 – Battle of Luzon; January 30 – Raid at Cabanatuan: 121 American soldiers and 800 Filipino guerrillas free 813 American Prisoners of war from the Japanese-held camp in the city of Cabanatuan in the Philippines.
The Philippine–American War, also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection (1899–1902), [1] was an armed conflict between Filipino revolutionaries and the government of the United States which arose from the struggle of the First Philippine Republic to gain independence following the Philippines being acquired by the United States from Spain.