When the United States defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War and took contr

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When the United States defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War and took control of the Philippine Islands, it decided not to grant them independence.
President McKinley justified this by claiming that the Philippines were not prepared for self-government, and were also vulnerable to control by other imperialist powers.
He concluded that the mission of the United States must be to prepare the Filipino people for democracy by educating, civilizing and “Christianizing” them.
The negative consequence of this decision was the bloody four-year war with the natives, which cost thousands and thousands of lives, both American and Filipino.

The positive consequence of this decision was that under American control, new hospitals, schools, roads were built, Filipinos were inoculated against diseases, the infant mortality rate dropped dramatically, and a public health system was established.

For this discussion, answer the following questions, supported by reasons or evidence (you may use Foner as a reference and quote from the text):

Although the Philippines resisted American involvement and control, do you think that the U.S. was justified in its actions because of the positive benefits that resulted?

Explanation / Answer

Yes. U.S was justified with its style of actions because it is the motive of U.S to keep hold on Phillipines so that they can provide them education, medical facilities and in turn utilize their resources. Why a country has to be so caring about another country? It is a globalization market which U.S used to execute its plan and tries to justify things it did. But providing education and decreasing death rates is not so easy and it had to taken as an advantage for a nation to cope up with the growing world.

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