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MEMBER: *THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE
BERDEGUEL, MARINA MICAH V. PHILIPPINES.
DALUMPINES, ERWIN
GOLEZ, JOSEPH *AMERICAN HERITAGE.
*THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.
*THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY
*THE COMING OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
The Commonwealth of the
Philippines
The Commonwealth of the Philippines
(Spanish: Commonwealth de Filipinas,[1][3]
Tagalog: Komonwelt ng Pilipinas) was the
administrative body that governed the
Philippines from 1935 to 1946, aside from a
period of exile in the Second World War from
1942 to 1945 when Japan occupied the country.
It replaced the Insular Government, a
United States territorial government, and was
established by the Tydings–McDuffie Act. The
Commonwealth was designed as a transitional
administration in preparation for the country's
full achievement of independence.[10]
AMERICAN
HERITAGE
American Heritage is a magazine
dedicated to covering the history of the United
States of America for a mainstream readership.
Until 2007, the magazine was published by
Forbes. [1] Since that time, Edwin S.
Grosvenor has been its publisher.[2]
Print publication was suspended early in
2013,[3] but the magazine relaunched in digital
format with the Summer 2017 issue[4] after a
Kickstarter campaign raised $31,203 from 587
backers.
The publisher stated it also intended to
relaunch the magazine's sister publication
Invention & Technology, which ceased print
publication in 2011.
The Spanish American
War
The Spanish American War 1898
History On April 21, 1898, the United States
declared war against Spain following the sinking
of the Battleship Maine in the Havana harbor on
February 15, 1898. The U.S. also supported the
ongoing struggle of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the
Philippines for independence against Spanish
rule. This would be the first war fought overseas
by the United States and it involved campaigns
in both Cuba and the Philippine Islands. The
majority of Spanish-American War soldiers
were volunteers who originated from all over the
United States for their part in, as Secretary of
State John Hay called it, a "splendid little war."
War began in Cuba in June when the Marines
captured Guantanamo Bay and U.S. troops
landed at Siboney and Daiquiri, east of Santiago,
Cuba. U.S. troops attacked the San Juan heights
on July 1, 1898. Dismounted cavalry troopers,
including the African-American Ninth and Tenth
cavalries and the Rough Riders commanded by
Lt. Col.
Theodore Roosevelt went up against
Kettle Hill while the forces led by Brigadier
General Jacob Kent charged up San Juan Hill
and pushed Spanish troops further inland while
inflicting 1,700 casualties. The Spanish fleet
guarding the Philippines was defeated by the
U.S. Navy under the command of Commodore
George Dewey on May 1, 1898. President
McKinley authorized the assembling of troops in
order to mount a campaign against the capital of
Manila not realizing Dewey's win. The war
ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on
December 10, 1898. The war established the
independence of Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico and
Guam to the United States, and allowed the US
to purchase the Philippines Islands from Spain
for $20 million. The war cost the United States
$250 million and 3,000 lives, 90% of whom
perished from yellow fever, typhoid fever and
other infectious diseases. Pennsylvania was one
of the largest contributors of men during the
Spanish American War with almost 17,000
Pennsylvanians serving in the Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and many more in the Federal army
and navy.
The Battle of Manila
Bay
INTRODUCTION On May 1, 1898, at
Manila Bay in the Philippines, the U.S. Asiatic
Squadron destroyed the Spanish Pacific fleet in
the first major battle of the Spanish-American
war (April-August 1898). The United States
went on to win the war, which ended Spanish
colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in
U.S. acquisition of territories in the western
Pacific and Latin America
. The British Empire responded as could be
On November 15, 1935, the Filipino
people took the penultimate step to
independence with the inauguration of the
Commonwealth of the Philippines. Only two
months prior, on September 16, a million
Filipinos had trooped to the polls to elect their
two highest officials—the President and Vice
President. This was the first time in the history
of the nation that a Filipino would finally sit as
Chief Executive and hold office in Malacañang
Palace.{{1}} Senate President Manuel L.
Quezon and his running mate Senate President
pro tempore Sergio Osmeña were elected as
President and Vice President, while voters
elected representatives for the new unicameral
National Assembly and for local positions.
The Coming of the
United States of
America
The country that would become The
United States of America started as a single
colony in Virginia - Jamestown. As the first
successful colony of what would become 13
colonies under Great Britain it is the humble
beginning.
Over the next century more and more people
came, not just English... but Scottish, German,
Dutch, French and Spanish settlers joined
existing colonies or formed their own.
In time the colonies began to grow prosperous,
and with that brought conflict.
The British Empire warred constantly
with the rest of Europe, primarily with France,
and needed money to pay for these wars. The
colonies had (to this point) escaped the taxman's
register but now they were asked to pay.
Many colonists were unhappy... some took it a
step further.
When Parliament (the true power in Great
Britain) refused to grant their requests for
representation, the colonies rebelled. Not all at
once, and certainly not unified... but they fought.
expected, bringing tremendous force to bear...
but it could only bring a fraction of its total
power. The colonies were a side show to the
much bigger conflict in Europe.
The now formed America suffered many
defeats... but eventually gained enough of a
victory at Saratoga to convince the French
to join... and the French leveled the
playing field.
Soon the British realized that the
colonies cost far more than they were
worth, so in 1783 they made a
deal. They gave the United States of
America its freedom and recognized it
as an independent state.
Thus the USA was born.
representatives for the new
unicameral National Assembly and
for local positions.