 Treaty of Peace Between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain (Treaty

of Paris)
IDENTIFICATION:
1. Treaty of Paris was signed in Paris on what date? December 10 1898
2. Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. What article of the
treaty of Paris is this under? Article 1
3. The United States will pay Spain the sum of _______ to buy the Philippine Island within
three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty. $20,000,000
4. Ratifications of the two governments were exchanged in the city of_______, on April 11
1899. Washington
5. The United States will, for the term of ten years from the date of the exchange of the
ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ships and merchandise to the ports of the
Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States.
Article 4
6. Spain will, upon the signature of the present treaty, release all prisoners of war, and all
persons detained or imprisoned for political offenses, in connection with the insurrections
in Cuba and the Philippines and the war with the United States. Article 6
7. The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty
shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion. Article 10
8. Spain shall have the power to establish consular officers in the ports places of the
territories, the sovereignty over which has been either relinquished or ceded by the
present treaty. Article 14
9. It is understood that any obligations assumed in this treaty by the United States with
respect to Cuba are limited to the time of its occupancy thereof; but it will upon the
termination of such occupancy, advise any Government established in the island to
assume the same obligations. Article 16
10. The United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, in the name
of her August Son ____________ desiring to end the state of war now existing between
the two countries. Don Alfonso XIII
11. The United States Of America’s President at 1898 was _______. William McKinley
12. The Government of each country will, for the term of ten years, accord to the merchant
vessels of the other country the same treatment in respect of all port charges, including
entrance and clearance dues, light dues, and tonnage duties, as its accords to its own
merchant vessels, not engaged in the coastwise trade. Article 15
13. The rights of property secured by copyrights and patents acquired by Spaniards in the
Island of Cuba, and in Porto Rico, the Philippines and other ceded territories, at the time
of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall continue to be respected. Article
13
14. In conformity with the provisions of Articles I, II, and III of this treaty, Spain
relinquishes in Cuba, and cedes in Porto Rico and other islands in the West Indies, in the
island of Guam, and in the Philippine Archipelago, all the buildings, wharves, barracks,
forts, structures, public highways and other immovable property which, in conformity
 with law, belong to the public domain, and as such belong to the Crown of Spain. Article
8
15. The United States will, upon the signature of the present treaty, send back to Spain, at its
own cost, the Spanish soldiers taken as prisoners of war on the capture of Manila by the
American forces. The arms of the soldiers in question shall be restored to them. Article 5

 McCoy, Alfred and Alejandro Roces. Political Caricatures of the American Era.
TRUE OR FALSE
1. In 1917, a mysterious informant named Juan Chua wrote the Philippines Free Press
alleging that senior police were accepting bribes from Chinese gambling houses in
Binondo and Quiapo districts. FALSE
2. In 1908, the nationalist weekly El Renacimiento published an editorial titled Aves De
Rapina which attacked the Philippine Commission’s Secretary of the Interior, Dean C.
Worcester. TRUE
3. Fernando Amorsolo, the publisher of The Independent. FALSE
4. In 1910 the Philippine Supreme Court had ruled that the Roman Catholic Church was the
legal owner of all disputed properties, thus stripping the nationalistic Aglipayan Church.
FALSE
5. Manila is a natural breeding group for mosquitoes. TRUE
6. The Free Press denounces the proliferation of illegal taxis called colorums. TRUE
7. As the Free Press began to despair over the quality of Manila’s government its cartoons
grew increasingly sharp throughout the 1930’s. TRUE
8. “The Returning Student” was released on April 7,1928. FALSE
9. “Brothers Under the Skin” urges Filipinos, in the name of Andres Bonifacio whose
birthday was the following day, to end social conflict and deal with each other fairly.
FALSE
10. “Brothers Under the Skin” presents a far more violent tapestry of provincial problems
than earlier cartoons. FALSE
11. “A Sovietized Philippines?” asks the Free Press, mocking a recent statement by Socialist
Party leader Pedro Abad Santos. TRUE
12. “Law and Order --- Democracy’s Greatest Bulwark” supports a recent speech on the floor
of the Assembly by Representative Fausto F. Gonzales-Sioco attacking the rampant
crime, political assassination and communist class agitation in his home province. TRUE
13. Madrigal seemed to feel that the Philippines could not win independence until the
Filipinos had shaped a national character capable of bearing that burden. FALSE
14. “The Loyalty of the Filipinos” was published on April 14, 1917. TRUE
15. “Which Weighs More?” published by The Independent in 1919. FALSE
  Filipinooo Grievances Against Governor Wood.
FILL THE BLANK:
1. “More than a quarter of a century has elapsed since the Philippines came under the
American flag- an emblem of______, not of subjugation.” FREEDOM
2. Major-General Leonard Wood was sent to the Philippines as _______. Governor-General
3. _______ is the laws creating and defining the powers of Board of Control which is
authorized to vote the stocks owned by the government in certain private corporations,
are absolute nullities. EO No. 37
4. This executive order is purported to be based upon an opinion rendered by the ________
of the United States Army and the confirmatory opinion of the Acting Advocate General.
Judge Advocate General
5. Cognizant of the part taken by General Wood in the liberation of ______, the Filipino
people expected that under his administration the spirit of cooperation would be
maintained and that the work of political emancipation would be complete. Cuba
6. “He has reversed the policy of ________ the service of the government by appointing
Americans even when Filipinos of proven capacity were available”. Filipinizing
7. “He has refused to obtain the advice of the Senate in making appointments where such
advice is required by the ______.” Organic Act
8. “He has, in the administration of affairs in Mindanao, brought about a condition which
has given rise to discord and dissension between certain groups of Christian and
________ Filipinos.” Mohammedan
9. “He has attempted to close the ________ so necessary to the economic development of
the country.” Philippine National Bank
10. “The consciousness of our sacred and inescapable duty to our country and our sense of
loyalty to the people of the United States constrain us to denounce the foregoing acts of
the present Governor-General as arbitrary, _______ and undemocratic. Oppressive

 CORAZON AQUINO’S SPEECH BEFORE THE JOINT SESSION OF THE UNITED

STATES CONGRESS

TRUE OR FALSE
1. Speech before the Joint session of the US Congress by Corazon Aquino was delivered on
September 18, 1988. FALSE
2. Cory referring to her husband: “They locked him up in a big, well ventilated cell in a
military camp in the north”. FALSE
3. Archibald Macleish had said that democracy must be defended by arms when it is
attacked by arms, and with truth when it is attacked by lies. TRUE
4. Cory: “Like William McKinley, I understand that force may be necessary before mercy.
Like McKinley, I don't relish it. Yet, I will do whatever it takes to defend the integrity
and freedom of my country”. FALSE
5. “Finally may I turn to that other slavery, our twenty-six billion dollar foreign debt. I have
said that we shall honor it”. TRUE
6. Cory referring to her husband: “For nothing would hold him back from his determination
to see his fast through to the end. He stopped only when it dawned on him that the
government would keep his body alive after the fast had destroyed his brain. And so, with
barely any life in his body, he called off the fast on the 40th day” TRUE
7. “Today, we face the aspiration of a people who have known so much poverty and
massive unemployment for the past 14 years.” TRUE
8. “Half our export earnings, two billion dollars out of four billion dollars which is all we
can earn in the restrictive market of the world, must go to pay just the interest on a debt
whose benefit the Filipino people never received”. TRUE
9. Corazon Aquino is the 10th President of the Philippines. TRUE
10. Cory referring to her husband: “For forty days, the authorities would not tell me what had
happened to him. This was the first time my children and I felt we had lost him”. FALSE