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Among the critics of the U.S.-Filipino War was Mark Twain, a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League, who denounced the war as an unjust attempt to “subjugate the people of the Philippines.”.

commanders authorized torture practices, such as the “water cure,” and ordered the killing of Filipino civilians and prisoners. Senate inquiry in early 1902 revealed that U.S. The U.S.-Filipino War resulted in the death of an estimated 200,000 Filipinos, mostly civilians, and 4,200 American soldiers.mission in the Philippines as one of “benevolent assimilation.” Attempting to avoid the charge of imperialism, President William McKinley described the U.S.

war against Spain lasted four months (late April-August 1898), the U.S.-Filipino War lasted more than four years. soldiers and Filipino soldiers, the beginning of a long and brutal war to crush Filipino aspirations for independence.

In February 1899, fighting broke out between occupying U.S.

government $20 million not to keep the Philippines.

Andrew Carnegie, the steel titan, offered to pay the U.S.

replaced Spain as colonial ruler, despite the fact that rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo had written a Declaration of Independence modeled after the U.S. subsequently made Cuba a “protectorate,” limiting Cuban independence. Spain transferred possession of Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico to the United States. nevertheless claimed victory alone, excluding Cuban and Filipino rebels from the peace negotiations. fought Spanish forces in Cuba and the Philippines, siding with rebels fighting for national independence.