Debate: Should the U.S. Annex the Philippines?

In 1899, Americans divided the Philippines into the United States as part of the United States. In 1900, Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Brian took part in the second William McKinley campaign, making anti-imperialists a central issue for his campaign. McKinley won easily and historian Walter Raphael believed that Brian's failure shows that American citizens have reached a basic consensus by supporting the American expansionism abroad I will. "By 1899, the United States has established a new empire," he concluded. The conflict between imperialists, isolists, and Filipinos who have contested the independence of the state will last for the remainder of the 20th century. The American foreign policy debate received a reaction.

Goal: Analyze contemporary support and opposing opinion on the merger of the Philippines by the United States at the turn of the century

Skills: document analysis, documented form defense and discussion, conflict resolution and consensus building

Source: President William McKinley, Senator Alfred Beveridge, William Jennings Bryan, Colored Citizen of Boston, Filipino Independent Leader Emilio Aginaldo, Interview with activist Clemente and West Lopez, a summary of speech

For each team member, please check one of the following documents. You discuss the Philippine merger issue from the perspective of your author. Make sure your team includes at least one support merger, one drinking prevention, and one Philippine perspective. After reading the allocated file, browse other files

What is the position of your role in the merger issue (make the US part of the Philippines). What is the reason?

4. Why do you think your character thinks in his / her way? What is necessary to change my thoughts to some extent?

6. What kind of compromise will your character accept if your character has to agree or compromise with someone who does not agree? What is not to allow compromise?

To support the US consolidation of the Philippines and to oppose it, please create charts in space. Please select someone to discuss these reasons during the discussion

Each group member should pretend that he is the person who wrote the specified document and present his opinion on consolidation of others.

When anyone submits their own opinion, we continue to discuss and discuss the issue of consolidation in the United States. Please use these documents and their authors as a basis for discussion. In other words, try to stay in the role!

At the end of the discussion, team members should strive to reach agreement - a compromise that everyone can agree about in what position the United States should address the consolidation issue. Participants need to refer to Step's answer

Share your thoughts with classes, understand what you achieved, and what the process is like. What are the most interesting and / or most fun events in this event? What is the most challenging thing? why?

Based on the agreement gained through discussion and debate, this group should write an editorial on whether the US should consolidate the Philippines.

The first question of the debate was whether the Philippines was permanently incorporated as a US territory, which was strongly opposed by many senators. They believe that this option should be entrusted to the area that will eventually become a federal state, and that Senators rarely accept Filipinos as US citizens, if at all. At the same time, however, many senators maintain the US control over the Gulf of Manila and Luzon, protect the US trade interests in Southeast Asia, and economically reduce the possession of other colonial countries (especially Germany) And its strategic importance. Filipinos We do not seem to be able to protect the Philippines nor let them leave.

In this activity, the student studied various views on the American debate about the consolidation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war. Students read the main sources of consolidation issues, gain Philippine independence, discuss related issues with the role of proponents of both sides, attempt to reach an agreement on the problem, and report the results to the class . Classes are divided into groups (3 to 8 students), packages for all documents are provided for each group. Each team member must select one file for careful review. Panelists discuss merger issues in the Philippines from the perspective of his or her author. Please confirm that each group contains at least one view of support merger, view on prevention of swallowing, and view on the Philippines. After reading the assigned file, the student needs to browse other files in the package.