Research

Name: Raven DL. Baliciado Course/Yr./Sec: BS Info Tech 1C

 The origins of the name the Philippines

o The Philippines was claimed in the name of Spain in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, a
Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, who named the islands after King Philip II of Spain.
They were then called Las Felipinas. By the 1830's Spanish culture and thought had
penetrated Filipino culture to the extent that the Filipino people began thinking about
liberation from Spain. The government of Spain developed Filipino agriculture to the
point that it was self-sufficient.

 Communist Party of the Philippines

o The Communist Party of the Philippines (Filipino: Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas) is a far-
left Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary organization and communist party in the
Philippines, formed by Jose Maria Sison on 26 December 1968. It is designated as a
terrorist group by the United States Department of State [1][2] together with Sison and
its armed wing New People's Army (NPA)[3] in 2002. The European Union [4] renewed
its terrorist designation on the organization in 2019,[5] though a 2009 ruling by the EU's
second highest court delisted Sison as a "person supporting terrorism" and reversed a
decision by member governments to freeze assets.[6] According to the US' Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook, the CPP and the NPA aims to destabilize the
Philippines' economy and overthrow the national government.[7]

 The religious belief system in the Philippines

o The Philippines proudly boasts to be the only Christian nation in Asia. More than 86
percent of the population is Roman Catholic, 6 percent belong to various nationalized
Christian cults, and another 2 percent belong to well over 100 Protestant
denominations. In addition to the Christian majority, there is a vigorous 4 percent
Muslim minority, concentrated on the southern islands of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan.
Scattered in isolated mountainous regions, the remaining 2 percent follow non-Western,
indigenous beliefs and practices. The Chinese minority, although statistically
insignificant, has been culturally influential in coloring Filipino Catholicism with many of
the beliefs and practices of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.
 US colonization of the Philippines
o American settlement in the Philippines (Filipino: paninirahan sa Pilipinas ng mga
Amerikano) began during the Spanish colonial period. The period of American
colonialization of the Philippines was 48 years. It began with the cession of the
Philippines to the U.S. by Spain in 1898 and lasted until the U.S. recognition of Philippine
independence in 1946. After independence in 1946, many Americans chose to remain in
the Philippines while maintaining relations with relatives in the US. Most of them were
 professionals, [vague] but missionaries continued to settle the country.[citation needed]
In 2015, the U.S. State Department estimated in 2016 that more than 220,000 U.S.
citizens lived in the Philippines and more than 650,000 visited per year, with a significant
mixed population of Amerasians and descendants from the colonial era as well.[1] The
United States invaded the Philippines, which was then governed by Spain as the Spanish
East Indies, during the Spanish–American War. During that war, Philippine
revolutionaries declared independence. Wanting to maintain a stronghold over the
island nation as a stepping stone to Japan and continental Asia, [citation needed] the
United States maintained authority of the archipelago and the Philippine–American War
ensued.[2] America then held the Philippines until granting full independence on July 4,
1946.

 Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?

o It was added to the Constitution to protect the people from the national government
from having too much power. Adding the Bill of Rights helped change many people's
minds to ratify the Constitution.