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McKinley sent a commission led by William Howard Taft to establish a civilian government, and McKinley later appointed Taft as the civilian governor of the Philippines. [162] The Filipino insurgency subsided with the capture of Aguinaldo in March 1901, and the U.S. maintained control of the islands until the 1946 Treaty of Manila .
Benevolent assimilation refers to a policy of the United States towards the Philippines as described in a proclamation by US president William McKinley that was issued in a memorandum to the U.S. Secretary of War on December 21, 1898, after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Spanish–American War. [1]
The Taft Commission, also known as the Second Philippine Commission (Filipino: Ikalawang Komisyon ng Pilipinas, Spanish: Segunda Comisión de Filipinas), was established by United States President William McKinley on March 16, 1900, following the recommendations of the First Philippine Commission, using presidential war powers while the U.S. was engaged in the Philippine–American War.
McKinley came around, and in just four months, the Spanish-American War was over, and the U.S. took control of Cuba, and acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. That same year, the U.S ...
William McKinley was a largely forgotten American president until Donald Trump returned to the White House as his biggest fan, due to McKinley’s own love affair with tariffs.
McKinley drifted in and out of consciousness all day, but when awake he was a model patient. By evening, McKinley too knew he was dying, "It is useless, gentlemen. I think we ought to have prayer." [210] [211] Relatives and friends gathered around the death bed. The first lady sobbed over him, saying, "I want to go, too. I want to go, too."
McKinley died in 1901 at the hands of an assassin. And he was in Buffalo, N.Y., that September in part to give a speech prodding the nation in a more free-trade direction.
McKinley ultimately decided he had no choice but to annex the Philippines, because he believed Japan would take control of them if the U.S. did not. [98] McKinley proposed to open negotiations with Spain on the basis of Cuban liberation and Puerto Rican annexation, with the final status of the Philippines subject to further discussion. [99]