a past revisited 15 Flashcards
It was the impulse of ____ that had led and would continue to lead to the widening of the frontiers of the United
States.
capitalism
The American Sugar Refining Company, or the ____ as it is more popularly known, was in the 1890’s the sixth
largest U.S. corporation and an almost pure monopoly controlling as it did 98% of U.S. sugar refining.
Sugar Trust
U.S. Ambassador ____, writing from
London to the Secretary of State, reported that the British Govemment thought it best that the United States the
Philippine Islands.
John Hay
he exercised the most powerful single influence on American policy toward the Philippines in the first decade of American rule.
William Howard Taft
Gen. McArthur declared that given the conditions obtaining at the time, the
Filipinos would need ____ for at least a decade before peace and order could be restored.
bayonet treatment
____ is gratefully remembered by many Filipinos for enunciating the policy of “the Philippines for the Filipinos.”
Taft
For Taft, the policy of “the Philippines for the Filipinos” fell squarely within the ____ framework.
imperialist
The decisions on the ____ allayed the anxieties of domestic industries, particularly the agricultural sector, for if special laws could be passed governing the colony, then this
meant that laws protecting the home market from competition from Philippine products could be enacted.
Insular Cases
The decisions on the ____ gave the U.S. government enough flexibility to evolve a colonial poiicy satisfactory to all sectors.
Insular Cases
remembered for its provision establishing the Philippine Assembly as the lower chamber of a bicameral legislature whose upper house was the Philippine Commission.
The Cooper Act of 1902
The _____ lowered the tariff rates on some types of American exports to the Philippines.
Tariff Act of 1901
The ____ reduced by 25% the duty on Philippine exports to the United States and removed the tariff on American goods entering the Philippines.
Tariff Act of 1902
Under this law all American goods could enter the Philippines free of duty and in unlimited quantities. However, because of the objections of the sugar and tobacco interests, quotas were imposed on the entry of Philippine sugar and tobacco.
Payne-Aldrich Act
With the Payne-Aldrich Act, entry of ____ was successfully blocked by Americans with the same product
Philippine Rice
All quota limitations imposed by the Payne Aldrich Act were abolished by the _____.
Underwood-Simmons Act of 1913
The Philippine Commission passed the _____ which prescribed the conditions for the sale and lease of the friar estates, preference to be given to some sixty thousand tenants who worked the
land.
Friar Lands Act
Filipinos do not habitually live on
the lands they work but in ____ and ____.
poblaciones and sitio
The only sugar central owned by a Filipino
Bago Central
The development of of ___ and ___- industries abroad stimulated the production and trade in copra.
Soap and margarine
By the time World War I broke out, one fourth of all the ____ in world trade was being supplied by the Philippines.
copra
____ was the principal export of the Philippines to the United States until 1912
Hemp
The influx of duty-free American goods drastically changed the consumption habits of the Filipinos and produced a
“______” mentality with disastrous effects on local production
buy-stateside
____ ensured the profitable development of agricultural products for export in exchange for American manufactures.
Tariff policy
