Controversy of Annexation of the Phillipine Islands

The Philippines is already their country and should not be forced to adapt to American culture and civilization. Prior to the consolidation of the Philippines there was a big clash between America and Spain to release Cuba from its dominant means. Tension continued to rise until President McKinley built a more stable government, decided to take action to protect Cuban citizens, and to make war against Spanish troops. After many months of battle, the Spaniards acknowledged the failure and started talking about the peace treaty of the Paris Convention.

US policy makers decided to consolidate the Philippines without domestic conflict. Americans advocating consolidation show various motives. Aspirations for business opportunities in Asia, concerns about not being able to autonomously, and if the United States can not control the island, another force (Germany, Japan etc) is concerned. At the same time, the United States feared that people who believe they are doing morally wrong colonialism against the colonial rule of the United States, and possibly finally possessed Filipino who are not white due to consolidation Including those who are. The role of the central government in the United States Others do not care at all about the moral or ethnic meaning of imperialism, but only against the government's policy of President William McKinley.

When the American public and politicians discussed the problem of consolidation after the American - American war, under the guidance of Aginaldo, Philippine revolutionaries gained control of the vast majority of the Luzon Island in the Philippines, and independent Philippines Announced the establishment of the Republic. . When the US military revealed that the US would colonize these islands, a full-scale war broke out in the early conflict between the two countries in 1899. Americans tend to call subsequent confrontations "uprising" rather than admitting Filipino claims that they are attempting to defend against foreign invaders.

When the Hawaiian islands were officially merged by the United States in 1898, the incident showed the end of the long internal struggle to dominate the Hawaiian government between Hawaiian indigenous peoples and white American businessmen. In 1893, the last lieutenant of Hawaii, Liliuokalani was overthrown by the Merchant Party, which in turn pressed on the interim government. Shortly thereafter, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian Islands to the Senate for approval. In 1897 the treaty's efforts were hindered when the newly established Hawaiian Patriotic Alliance composed of Hawaiian natives succeeded in opposing the treaty against the United States Congress. The lobbying of the alliance was not a majority of 2/3 required to ratify the treaty, but only 46 senators permitted the resolution to be supported. Although the victory of the league is short-lived, due to the ongoing global events, the merger issue was forced to reappear. With the explosive growth of the United States