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The Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War in 1898. Key provisions included: 1) Spain relinquishing control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico and Guam to the US. 2) The US initially agreed to hold Manila until the Philippines' disposition was determined. However, McKinley later decided the US would take control of the entire Philippines. 3) Spain accepted US control of the Philippines in exchange for $20 million and the US assuming Cuba's $400 million debt to Spain. The treaty transferred sovereignty of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the US.

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Riph Activity 6

The Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War in 1898. Key provisions included: 1) Spain relinquishing control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico and Guam to the US. 2) The US initially agreed to hold Manila until the Philippines' disposition was determined. However, McKinley later decided the US would take control of the entire Philippines. 3) Spain accepted US control of the Philippines in exchange for $20 million and the US assuming Cuba's $400 million debt to Spain. The treaty transferred sovereignty of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the US.

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1. Enumerate and discuss the salient provisions of the Treaty of Paris.

The Treaty of Paris (1898) ended the Spanish-American War. On December 10, 1898,

representatives from Spain and the United States signed it in Paris.

Armistice talks in Washington, D.C., ended on Aug. 12, 1898, with the signing of a protocol

requiring a peace conference in Paris by October, Spain to relinquish Cuba and cede Puerto

Rico and one of the Mariana Islands to the United States, and the United States to hold

Manila until the disposition of the Philippines was determined.

When the conference started on October 1, the U.S. President William McKinley had finally

decided to take control of the Philippines.

The demand was eventually accepted by Spain, albeit reluctantly, with the stipulation that

the US pay Spain $20 million nominally for public buildings and public works in the

Philippines. The final treaty also required Spain to cede all claims to Cuba and agree to assume
liability for the estimated $400 million Cuban debt. As compensation, Spain gave the United
States Puerto Rico and Guam (in the Marianas). (An attempt by US commissioners to secure
Kosrae in the Caroline Islands was successfully thwarted by Germany, which had already begun
negotiations to purchase the islands.)

2. What is/are the relevance of the Political Caricatures of the American Era in

understanding the grand narrative of Philippine History?

Alfred William McCoy, an American professor of history and award-winning writer


who has dedicated his professional career to the research of Southeast Asian
history, particularly that of the Philippines, as well as the study of US Foreign Policy,
wrote the book Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era. From
1937 to 1955, one of his dissertations focused on the factional conflict in the colonial
economy of Iloilo, Philippines. His interest in Filipino history enabled him to master
the Hiligaynon dialect and comprehend political issues. situation, not just in the
region of Iloilo, but throughout the country. Philippine Cartoons is a collection of
377 editorial cartoons and caricatures created by Filipino artists. From 1900 to 1941,
each individual caricature recorded national attitudes toward the arrival of the
Americans as well as changing mores and times in the Philippines. Some of the
cartoons depicted the plight of Filipino farmers at the hands of American tenants
who self-owned the laborers' lands and imposed exorbitant and unjust taxes on
them. Aside from that, the caricatures also depicted Americans as controlling and
enslaving people by taking over the insular civil service and making Filipinos do most of
the work for their own benefit, paying off authorities for their personal security, and
demanding highest respects from the Filipinos. These caricatures clarify historical
information and serve as eye-openers to the realities experienced by the people under
the American occupation. Later, political cartoons like these would become relevant in
presenting the current situation of the country, just like how they served as primers for
engaging the people in the prevailing opinions at that time.

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