How did the Philippine-American end?

Answer 1

After its quick defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. On February 4, 1899, just two days before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists led by Emilio Aguinaldo who sought independence rather than a change in colonial rulers.

Aguinaldo's forces were soon routed by the trained American troops, so he turned to guerrilla warfare, which was conducted with equal brutality by both sides.

However the colonial government established in the Philippines in 1900 under future President William Howard Taft launched a pacification campaign that became known as the