whta were the motives for the Philippine american war?

Question

the reasons for it, please leave short/ brief answers

Answer 1

I have an idea of the motives behind the Philippine-American War.

The U.S. PURCHASED the Philippines from Spain for the sum of 20 million dollars in December, 1898. The plan was to make the Philippines an American colony. The Filipinos, fighting against Spain for their independence already declared independence on June 12, 1898. The U.S. sent 11,000 ground troops to occupy the Philippines on August 14, 1898.

The war began after the controversial Battle of Manila (February 4th, 1899), when the American forces occupied Manila and encountered Emilio Aguinaldo's Army of Liberation - a Filipino soldier was shot in Sociego Street in Manila - the incident which historians now consider the beginning of the war.

Answer 2

As crazy as it may sound, that war was actually an accident! It was not planed by either side!

What happened was that the US were at war with Spain and the Philippines were a spanish colony. Thus the American Forces came also to the Philippines to fight there against the Spaniards.
Only, when they succeded against Spain they did not want to leave the Philippines anymore and instead made the Philippines by military force a colony of the US, only they called it protectorate, but it was a colony of the US anyway!

Answer 3

Mark Twain (author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn) wrote a very interesting article on why the Americans got into the Philippine-American War. (See the first source listed below.)

I also list two other short articles on the reasons behind this war.

As Mark Twain points out, the war was no accident:

"Our case is simple. On the 1st of May, Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet. This left the Archipelago in the hands of its proper and rightful owners, the Filipino nation. Their army numbered 30,000 men, and they were competent to whip out or starve out the little Spanish garrison; then the people could set up a government of their own devising. Our traditions required that Dewey should now set up his warning sign, and go away. But the Master of the Game happened to think of another plan--the European plan. He acted upon it. This was, to send out an army--ostensibly to help the native patriots put the finishing touch upon their long and plucky struggle for independence, but really to take their land away from them and keep it. That is, in the interest of Progress and Civilization. The plan developed, stage by stage, and quite satisfactorily. We entered into a military alliance with the trusting Filipinos, and they hemmed in Manila on the land side, and by their valuable help the place, with its garrison of 8,000 or 10,000 Spaniards, was captured--a thing which we could not have accomplished unaided at that time. We got their help by--by ingenuity. We knew they were fighting for their independence, and that they had been at it for two years. We knew they supposed that we also were fighting in their worthy cause--just as we had helped the Cubans fight for Cuban independence--and we allowed them to go on thinking so. Until Manila was ours and we could get along without them."

Answer 4

nothing really. u.s. was an emerging power that time and having just seized cuba from spain, it is all but expected to colonize philippines as well. when they realized they couldn't benefit much of the islands, they decided to gradually give it back to them but not without teaching them democracy and western customs so as to wipe whatever influence the spanish imparted. however the us soldiers got bored and having nothing to do except wait for the transition government, unconsciously stirred up the peaceful atmosphere. pvt john grayson shot a filipino soldier while on patrol one night and that ignited the war. it was a senseless war. they can't get anything from the islands (unlike iraq that has oil). they were about to just leave the country in a matter of time when that happened.

Answer 5

The Philippine-American War was a Filipino political struggle against U.S. occupation of the Philippines.

Answer 6

Salam,
Every war was based on money and is always based on money that is all that war is for to gain more money and more power. They can blame religion and try to make one but they are going to fail terribly! Al hamdoullah!

Those of the books are protected by the books and whatever money and riches they gather will follow them to the flames and be used to keep them burning. Al hamdoullah that will be a glorious day and we will witness everything as a mercy and blessing to those greedy examples that suck the earth try of all things and then claim scapegoat to religion. You want the truth that is the truth, no one in their right mind wants to fight or have any war, only those at the top want more power and more money and that is all you can take to the bank along side you check they will suck up every week. When are you guys going to wake up another 500 years, how stupid!

Answer 7

The US was at war with Spain, which then owned the Philippines. It had more to do with events in Cuba, but the US didn't miss the chance to snag such an important base in the Western Pacific. It was all about securing strategic locations in a contest for global military and commercial advantage.

Answer 8

I don't think America has ever been at war with the Philippines. Do you mean the Spanish American War?

Answer 9

well there was really no motives, it kinda just happened, see after the US defeated Spain, the US won all of Spain's territory.. the philippines, and they wanted to be independent and the rest is history

Answer 10

Do you mean the war with Spain?