Filipinos

=The Filipinos: A Perspective on American History= by: Brita Fagerstrom and Jollene Chup

The Filipinos are a Southeast Asian group. Pre-1492, they lived in the region now called Philippines in Southeast Asia, which is near Russia, China, Japan, and the Pacific Ocean. Geographical features that would have limited this group’s ability to move include: the Pacific Ocean, and the fact that it’s an island. Eventually, the Philippines would shape American history in the following ways: by fighting the Spanish American War, spreading their language,immigrating to the U.S.and supporting lots of political affairs in America.
 * Introduction:**

Religion is a important to the majority of Filipinos, including Jewish, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, Protestants and animists religion.Religion in the religion in the Philippines is important because it can create experiences, rituals, ceremonies, and adjurations that provide continuity in life, cohesion in the community and moral purpose for existence.
 * Religion (Worldview): Christian, Animism and Muslim.**

Approximately 3.1 million Filipinos lived in the United States in 2007, and around 91million in the present.
 * Population in the United States:**

The name “Philippines” was derived from king Phillip II of Spain and the 16th century. Spanish explorer Ruy Lopez De Villalobs used the name Filipino in honor of Prince Asturias. The Philippines was a former colony of Spain in the U.S. In the 1400s, traders from Indonesia and Malalysia were arriving in the Philippines and attempting to convert islanders to Islam.
 * HISTORY**:
 * 1492**: **Columbus’ Arrival in the Americas**

**1521**: **Cortes Encounters the Aztecs in Mexico** In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan anchored, landed and held a Christian Mass on Easter Sunday in the Philippines. The Spanish would follow in 1565 and eventually take control of the Philippines. From 1565 to 1815, during the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade, Filipinos were forced to work as sailors and navigators on board Spanish Galleons in Morrow Bay California.On October 18, 1587, Filipinos were the first Asians to cross the Pacific Ocean as early as 1587, fifty years before the first English settlement of Jamestown was established.

Spanish colonists bring Filipinos and Mexicans to North American.
 * 1** **607**: **English Colonists Arrive at Jamestown**

**1687:** **English Colonies Expand** Filipinos desert Spanish ship in New Orleans, establish first Filipino community in U.S. in Louisiana bayou. In 1781, Antonio Miranda Rodriguez Poblador, a Filipino, along with 44 other individuals was sent by the Spanish government from Mexico to establish what is now known as the city of Los Angeles. Filipino Americans arrived in the new world landed in year 1763, later creating settlements such as Saint Malo, Louisiana, and Manilla village in Baraturia village.
 * 1776-1787: American Revolution; U.S. Constitution**

**1802**: **Tlingit Battle the Russians at Sitka**


 * 1839**: **The Amistad; the Trail of Tears**

1848, "Manila Men; were the majority of miners at Tulitos(named after the capital of the Philipines), one of the earliest gold mining camps in Mariposa county during the California Gold Rush.
 * 1850**: **Fugitive Slave Law Made**

The Japanese goverment officially acquiesced to American colonial rule over the Philippines. CAPITALIZE COUNTRY NAMES! Spain ceding the Phillipines to the U.S. in exchange for 20million dollars. In the 1990 the Philippines started settling in the territory (then) of a Hawaii and California. In 1883 Filipino sailers ran away from Spanish galleons to escape hard work and fled to America.
 * 1863**: **The U.S. Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation**

Filipinos celebrated their independence from Spain on June 12, 1898, and declared Emilio Aguinaldo as president. However, the people of the Philippines were not truly free. In fact, they never were. America was its new ruler and had cheated the Filipinos in believing that they were free. Thus, the Filipino American War began shortly after U.S. colonization. The War lasted from 1898 to 1902, and in those 3 years as many as 70,000 Americans died and close to 2 million Filipinos were killed. American soldiers were ordered to shoot and kill every one over age 10. Filipinos over ten were considered "Criminals because they were born ten years before [America] we took the Philippines."
 * 1890**: **Westward Movement; Reform Movements**

The 4th wave of Filipino Immigration began after the passing of the Immigration Act of 1965 and continues to the present day. Filipinos are more populated in the U.S. because of there immigration in the 1900's, and have also immigrated for a better living in America.
 * 2009:** **TODAY**

Work Credits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War