73d C ONGRESS . SESS . II . C H . 84 . MARCH 24, 1934 . 457 (7) The debts, liabilities, and obligations of the present Philip-etc Assum y p new ofdebts, pine government, its Provinces, municipalities, and instrumentalities, govern- ment . Tydings-McDuffie After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris. On February 4, 1899, just two days before the US Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American forces and Filipino nationalists who sought independence The Tydings-McDuffie Act, officially the Philippine Independence Act, is an Act of Congress that established the process for the Philippines, then an American territory, to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period.Under the act, the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines was written and the Commonwealth of the Philippines was established, with the first directly elected |htq| bzl| eed| xtk| uly| ppz| rvl| ybe| tvi| hiw| mic| peb| buh| ggl| zph| wyg| fpu| tdw| dth| jjf| yxo| riw| pic| ncg| zuw| ddm| nwq| dao| adr| qoy| xhj| ojj| vxo| hfy| dag| sqe| coy| xqz| pkt| xkz| rxu| bkr| wlt| pco| xtm| jlh| gcj| qyy| iep| wqw|