Answer to Question #249501 in History for Lilly

Question

Of the seventeen (17) articles of the Treaty of Paris, select one (1) article which you think
is favorable to the people of the Philippines. Select another one (1) article which you think
is unfavorable to the people of the Philippines

Answer 1

Among the seventeen articles of the Treaty of Paris, I think the Philippines is favored to Article 7 (- “The United States and Spain mutually relinquish all claims for indemnity, national and individual, of every kind, of either Government, or of its citizens or subjects, against the other Government. The United States will adjudicate and settle the claims of its citizens against Spain relinquished in this article.”) because I perceived that the article is a resolve, a peace inaction between states or governments and with that, perhaps the people of the Philippines benefited from it. However, I think Article 3 is unfavorable to the people of the Philippines because of the exchange of the territories between the U.S and Spain, and especially selling the Philippines to the United States in the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000). Which I think it is a disadvantage to the Philippines to be owned by the United States as one of their territory. They could have given the Philippines the independence that they deserve rather than being further marginalized under the Americans’ imperialism.