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CHAPTER 16: Compromise With Colonialism

The document discusses America's non-military approach to colonialism in the Philippines in the late 19th/early 20th century. It establishes how the 1899 Schurman Commission laid the groundwork for a subtle conquest through cooperation with the Filipino elite. It then provides details on the establishment of civilian governments on various islands and growth of the education system during this period, including increasing Muslim enrollment. Compromise and cooperation with local leaders helped enable the American colonial government to establish control over time.

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CHAPTER 16: Compromise With Colonialism

The document discusses America's non-military approach to colonialism in the Philippines in the late 19th/early 20th century. It establishes how the 1899 Schurman Commission laid the groundwork for a subtle conquest through cooperation with the Filipino elite. It then provides details on the establishment of civilian governments on various islands and growth of the education system during this period, including increasing Muslim enrollment. Compromise and cooperation with local leaders helped enable the American colonial government to establish control over time.

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CHAPTER 16: Compromise With Colonialism

 1899, the Schurman Commission, the first significant body created by


Pres. McKinley, with Jacob Schurman , Pres. Of Comell University, as
head initiated the non-military approach of American colonialism and
succeeded, after several months, in laying down the foundation of a subtle
conquest of the Philippines through the cooperation of the Filipino elite.
 November 1898, they organized themselves into a provisional
government.
 March 1, 1899, created the Visayan Military district with Gen. James F.
Smith as Governor of Negros.
 February 1899, outbreak of Filipino-American hostilities.
 1901, the American colonial government could disclose the pacification of
the islands and the establishment of the civil government.
 Dr. Najeeb M. Saleeby, a medical practitioner turned educator.
 At the time of his tenure, there were 52 elementary school.
 2,114 pupils, 240 of whom were Muslims.
 Handled by 15 American teachers, 50 Christians, and 9 Muslims.
 June 30, 1906 he resigned to become the new Secretary of the Moro
Province under Governor Tasker H. Bliss.
 The school enrolment reached 4,231pupils.
 Muslim enrollees also grew to 570.
 Private Albert L. Burleigh of the 2nd Infantry chose to teach Tausug
children in Jolo.
 1902, the ground was prepared for the American colonial government to
study the set-up in the Cordillera through Dr. David P. Barrows who
became the head of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes.
 1903, Secretary of the Interior Worcester had gotten DomingaAtandada of
Dullayan and Rafael Baluyunoan to accept American rule.
 Beginning of 1906, the entry of Lt. Jeff D. Gallman into Ifugao country saw
the beginning of an era of peace.

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