rekordy: Philippines

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The Philippine–American War, known alternatively as the Filipino–American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Tagalog Insurgency, was a 1898-1902 conflict between the United States and Filipino independence fighters after the Spanish-American War. The United States ultimately prevailed, and maintained control of the Philippines until independence in 1946, other than the 1941-45 Japanese occupation of the Philippines. In 1898, the United States annexed the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish American War, under the terms of the December 1898 Treaty of Paris. The Spanish Empire had controlled the Philippine Islands since 1565 as the Captaincy General of the Philippines. After the defeat of…

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Filipino Americans (Filipino: Mga Pilipinong Amerikano) are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipinos in North America were first documented in the 16th century and other small settlements beginning in the 18th century. Mass migration did not begin until after the end of the Spanish–American War at the end of the 19th century, when the Philippines was ceded from Spain to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. As of 2022, there were almost 4.5 million Filipino Americans in the United States with large communities in California, Hawaii, Texas, Nevada, Washington, Florida, Illinois, the New York metropolitan area, and Virginia. Around one third of Filipino Americans identify as multiracial…

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The history of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946 is known as the American colonial period, which 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 July 4, 1946. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris on December 10, 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States. The interim U.S. military government of the Philippine Islands experienced a period of great political turbulence, characterized by the Philippine–American War. A series of insurgent governments that lacked significant internatio…

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Puerto Rico’s Debt: Still Foreign in a Domestic Sense. Puerto Rico, an unincorporated U.S. territory containing over three million American citizens, is suffering from a humanitarian and economic disaster unparalleled in United States history. After a decade of economic recession, Puerto Rico declared that its debts could not be repaid, setting the stage for the United States’ largest debt restructuring. In addition, the Caribbean island has been frequently assailed by natural disasters, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the Commonwealth’s economic crises, Congress passed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) in 2016. That legislat…

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The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was an armed conflict fought between the United States and Spain in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and eventually resulted in the U.S. acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and establishing a protectorate over Cuba. It represented U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence and Philippine Revolution, with the latter later leading to the Philippine–American War. The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four centuries of Spanish presence in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific; the United States meanwhile not only became a major world power, but also gained several island p…

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Independence Day (Filipino: Araw ng Kasarinlán; also known as Araw ng Kalayaan, "Day of Freedom") is a national holiday in the Philippines observed annually on June 12, commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898. Since 1978, it has been the country's national day.

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