WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -American troops were in possession of the city, but Filipino insurgents controlled the rest of the country. The Treaty of Paris(1898), signed by representatives of Spain and the United States in December, transferred Philippine sovereignty from Spain to the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -After this, the colony was directly governed by Spain. Spanish rule ended in 1898 with Spain’s defeat in the Spanish–American War. The Philippines then became a territory of the United States. U.S. forces suppressed a revolution led by Emilio Aguinaldo.

Detailed explanation-3: -The period of American colonialization of the Philippines was 48 years. It began with the cession of the Philippines to the U.S. by Spain in 1898 and lasted until the U.S. recognition of Philippine independence in 1946.

Detailed explanation-4: -America’s war with Spain, which arose because of the concern of the United States about conditions in Cuba, brought Commodore Dewey to Manila in May 1898, to destroy the Spanish fleet.

Detailed explanation-5: -The United States had acquired a colony the size of Arizona, located more than 4, 000 miles away across the Pacific. But in the purchase, the United States also had received control over ancient Muslim sultanates still angry about the Spanish takeover centuries earlier.