Results of the American Occupation

 Progress in Education
 Public Health & Welfare
 Trade, Commerce, and Industry
 Transportation & Communication
 Individual Freedoms
 Political Consciousness
 Language & Literature
 Negative Results
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 Progress in Education
- Emphasized the democratic traditions and practical application of law and
principles.
- Made enrollment in public schools was compulsory.
- Compelled Filipinos to learn the English language.
- Increased Filipino literacy.

 American soldiers- first public school teachers

 Thomasites- American teachers on board the S.S.

Thomas.

 Pensionados- Filipino students who showed aptitudes

were sent to US.

 (Place this in note area* Bottomline: American

system prepared Filipinos for administrative
service.)

 Public Health & Welfare

- Minimized the spread of diseases and improved health of people.

- Epidemics were either prevented or minimized by establishing Quarantine
Service.
- Introduced new methods of prevention and treatment through health
education (of sanitation and hygiene).
- Created Board of Public Health (1901) intensified campaign for the
eradication of superstition and ignorance.
- Provided facilities for the release of human misery and misfortune (e.g.
asylums for the orphans, the insane, the juvenile offenders)
- Improved standard of living.
- Replaced salt-and-rice nutrition by balanced diet.
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 Trade, Commerce, and Industry

- Passed Payned-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909) : partial free trade relations between
the Philippines and US were established.
- Passed Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act (1913) : abolished quota limitations on
Philippine export products.
- Textile, fishing and fish-canning, alcohol distilleries, sugar centrals and
cigarette factories multiplied.
- Mining became the backbone of Philippine economy.
- Overall effect : placing Philippine economy at the mercy of the Americans.

 Transportation & Communication

- Bridges and culverts numbered.

- Means of transportation improved.
- Cars, trucks, and railway cars speeded up the means of transportation.
- Brought far-flung provinces nearer Manila by extending railroad lines to the
North and South of Luzon.
- Developed water transportation to connect islands of the south with the
provinces of Luzon.
- Encouraged interisland shipping.
- Opened more than a hundred ports to domestic shipping.
- Progress in communication was notable.
- Introduced telephone lines in Manila in 1905 and radio-telephone service in
1933 (linking towns and provincial capitals).
- Overall : American altruism was engrafted with profit motive.

 Individual Freedoms

- Extended the democratic principile of equality in rights and obligations as well

as in opportunities.
- Sedition Law of 1907 : considered it seditious of any Filipino to advocate
independence.
- Flag Law of 1907 : prohibited the display of the Filipino flag.
- Filipinos enjoyed freedom of religious worship, freedom of press, freedom to
assemble peaceably for the redress of grievances, freedom to change
domicile, and freedom of speech.
- Applied the principles to the poorest and illiterate common tao.

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  Political Consciousness

- Brought partisan politics.

- Imposed political pattern: issues were outlined; platforms were prepared;
speeches were delivered; and political chest funds were accumulated.
- Control of the law-making body and Filipinization policy of Harrison led to
deep political consciousness.

 Language & Literature

- Development of Filipino literature in English.

- Adoption of American words and phrases in Philippine languages.

 Negative Results

- Most westernized country in the Orient.

- American goods and services were considered luxuries.
- Resulted to neglect and consequent death of Filipino industries.
- Stateside (American goods) is the best, if made in Philippines it is inferior.
- Softened the Filipinos by pampering their stomach.
- Filipinos suffered a partial loss of their heritage.
- Love of their language and culture has been replaced by the adoration of
American language and culture.
- Movies : purveyor of American materialism which implied success.
- Success is measured in terms of material possessions.
- American gangsterism displayed machine guns and brilliant strategy which is
imitated.