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    Philippines Declaration of 1896

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    The document summarizes the history of the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain in 1896. It describes the growing nationalist sentiment among the Filipino people throughout the 19th century as an educated class emerged. Secret revolutionary societies were formed to plan an uprising against Spanish rule. Andres Bonifacio organized the Katipunan society and issued a call for armed rebellion in 1896. Though the revolution failed to immediately oust the Spanish, it demonstrated the Filipino desire for independence and led to negotiations in 1897.

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    The document summarizes the history of the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain in 1896. It describes the growing nationalist sentiment among the Filipino people throughout the 19th century as an educated class emerged. Secret revolutionary societies were formed to plan an uprising against Spanish rule. Andres Bonifacio organized the Katipunan society and issued a call for armed rebellion in 1896. Though the revolution failed to immediately oust the Spanish, it demonstrated the Filipino desire for independence and led to negotiations in 1897.

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    The document summarizes the history of the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain in 1896. It describes the growing nationalist sentiment among the Filipino people throughout the 19th century as an educated class emerged. Secret revolutionary societies were formed to plan an uprising against Spanish rule. Andres Bonifacio organized the Katipunan society and issued a call for armed rebellion in 1896. Though the revolution failed to immediately oust the Spanish, it demonstrated the Filipino desire for independence and led to negotiations in 1897.

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    Katlyn Mae Prades Tañamor
    The document summarizes the history of the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain in 1896. It describes the growing nationalist sentiment among the Filipino people throughout the 19th century as an educated class emerged. Secret revolutionary societies were formed to plan an uprising against Spanish rule. Andres Bonifacio organized the Katipunan society and issued a call for armed rebellion in 1896. Though the revolution failed to immediately oust the Spanish, it demonstrated the Filipino desire for independence and led to negotiations in 1897.

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    PHILIPPINES

    DECLARATION OF 1896
    • Filipino independence struggle that, after more than 300
    years of Spanish colonial rule, exposed the weakness of
    Spanish administration but failed to evict Spaniards from the
    islands. The Spanish-American War brought Spain’s rule in
    the Philippines to a close in 1898 but precipitated the
    Philippine-American War, a bloody war between Filipino
    revolutionaries and the U.S. Army.
    • Numerous quasi-religious uprisings had punctuated the long era of
    Spanish sovereignty over the Philippines, but none possessed sufficient
    coordination to oust the Europeans. During the 19th century, however, an
    educated Filipino middle class emerged and with it a desire for Philippine
    independence. Opposition before 1872 was primarily confined to the
    Filipino clergy, who resented the Spanish monopoly of power within the
    Roman Catholic Church in the islands. In that year the abortive
    Cavite Mutiny, a brief uprising against the Spanish, served as an excuse
    for renewed Spanish repression. The martyrdom of three Filipino priests—
    José Burgos, Mariano Gómez, and Jacinto Zamora—for allegedly
    conspiring with the rebels at Cavite sparked a wave of anti-Spanish
    sentiment.
    • Reform-minded Filipinos took refuge in Europe, where they
    carried on a literary campaign known
    as the Propaganda Movement. Dr. José Rizal quickly
    emerged as the leading Propagandist.
    His novel Noli me tángere (1886; The Social Cancer, 1912)
    exposed the corruption of Manila Spanish society and
    stimulated the movement for independence.
    • By 1892 it became obvious that Spain was unwilling to reform its
    colonial government. Andres Bonifacio, a self-educated warehouse
    clerk, organized a secret revolutionary society, the Katipunan, in
    Manila. Membership grew to an estimated 100,000 by August 1896,
    when the Spaniards discovered its existence. Bonifacio immediately
    issued a call for armed rebellion. The Spanish then arrested Rizal, who
    had advocated reform but never condoned the revolution. Rizal’s
    public execution, on December 30, 1896, so enraged and united
    Filipinos as to make permanent retention of power by Spain clearly
    impossible.
    • In March 1897 leadership of the revolution passed to a young general,
    Emilio Aguinaldo, who had Bonifacio shot for alleged sedition. Aguinaldo
    proved incapable of militarily defeating the Spanish troops, who were
    augmented by Filipino mercenaries. In the later months of 1897,
    Aguinaldo’s revolutionary army was pushed into the mountains
    southeast of Manila.
    • On December 15, 1897, the pact of Biak-na-Bato was proclaimed.
    Though its precise terms have been a matter of impassioned debate
    ever since, the pact brought a temporary end to the Philippine
    Revolution. Aguinaldo and other revolutionary leaders accepted exile
    in Hong Kong and 400,000 pesos, plus Spanish promises of
    substantial governmental reforms, in return for laying down their
    arms. Neither side executed the terms of the pact in good faith.
    Aguinaldo used the money to purchase arms in Hong Kong, and the
    Spanish reneged on the promised reforms.

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