"We have crushed a deceived and confiding people; we have stamped out a just and intelligent and well-ordered republic; we have stabbed an ally in the back and slapped the face of a guest. We have debauched America's honor and blackened her face before the world. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land." — Mark Twain, 1900
The Philippine-American War (1899-1902) resulted in
- Acheck_circle
Roughly 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths and U.S. annexation
- B
Japanese occupation of Manila
- C
Spanish recovery of the islands
- D
Filipino independence in 1900
Explanation
The war killed an estimated 4,200 Americans and over 200,000 Filipinos; the U.S. governed the colony until 1946.