1899-1902: The U.S. sent 11,000 troops to the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. The Philippines were not ready to accept that the U.S. was trying to take the place of the recently ousted Spanish and put up a fight against annexation. The American Anti-Imperialist League strongly objected to the annexation of the Philippines.
Mark Twain, a member of the American Anti-Imperialist League, stated “ I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land”. (Twain, 1900)
On July 4, 1902, President Roosevelt issued the official Peace Proclamation ending the war.
References
"Philippine Islands Map Showing Principal Mineral Districts" from Diplomatic and Consular
"Philippine Islands Map Showing Principal Mineral Districts" from Diplomatic and Consular
Reports; Annual 4369 - 4387, 1908 Vol. 7; edited at the Foreign Office and the Board of
Trade. London 1909. Retrieved July 19, 2009 from Philippine Islands 1909
Twain, M., (October 6, 1900). "Mark Twain, The Greatest American Humorist, Returning
Home". New York World. Retrieved July 14, 2009 from
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