After Spain surrendered, the 1898 Treaty of Paris gave the Philippines to the U.S. But Filipinos fought this handover, and rose up in the Philippine-American War in 1899. The year in which that ...

The First Philippine Republic, formally established in 1898, was short-lived, as the Spanish-American War ended with the US purchase of Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines from Spain for $20m ...

Formal US ties to the Philippines go back to 1898, when as part of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War, Madrid ceded control of its colony in the Philippines to the US.