1.PHILIPPINES2.DEBATE OVER PHILIPPINES3.PHILIPPINE WAR4.PUERTO RICO5.CUBA

Postwar Period

AnnexationAnnexation Anti-ImperialistAnti-Imperialist

Colonies make a nation stronger

US could dominate Asian Trade

Spread Christianity to natives

US was the only power that did not possess colonies

irresponsible of US to grant independence

immoral

Fear of introducing “inferior” Asian foreigners to America

Outsourcing would steal jobs

unwelcome competition

Undermine US democracy

Conflicts

Debate Over Philippines

Philippines

Debate over Annexation Empire or not? Anti-Imperialist League

Mark Twain Samuel Gompers William Jennings

Bryan Andrew Carnegie

Treaty of Paris ratified by Senate (1899)

McKinley beats William Jennings Bryan (1900)

Philippine Insurrection

●Filipinos accused America of hypocrisy and revolted.

●Brutal guerilla warfare and massacres by both sides left many dead.

● 220,000 Filipinos 220,000 Filipinos

● 4300 American Marines4300 American Marines

●Fighting ended four years later in 1901 with the capture of Aguinaldo who peacefully surrendered and retired

Insular Cases

Supreme Court Rulings (early 1900’s)

Constitution does not follow the flag

New Territories Belonged, but not part of the US Congress determined rights

● Philippines became stable and increasingly autonomous until their independence granted by the US in 1946

Puerto Rico

Foraker Act of 1900

American governor Bicameral legislature

Jones Act of 1917

Puerto Rico today

Cuba

Teller Amendment (1898)

Platt Amendment (1901) banned it from

making treaties Naval base

(Guantanamo) Debts had to remain

low Right of intervention

protectorate

Revolution of 1958