Industrial AgeWar & Conflict Philippine-American War 1899Major The U.S., having acquired the Philippines from Spain, fights the new Philippine republic; the war makes America a colonial power in Asia until 1946. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Aristotle's Lyceum → Alexander's conquests → Death of Alexander and the Hellenistic kingdoms → Seleucid Empire founded → Parthian Empire founded → Sasanian Empire → Birth of Muhammad → Muhammad's first revelations → The Hijra → Conquest of Mecca → Death of Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphate → Arab conquests → Abbasid Caliphate → Battle of Talas → Paper reaches the Islamic world → House of Wisdom → Al-Khwarizmi and algebra → Fibonacci's Liber Abaci → Bills of exchange → Medici Bank → Double-entry bookkeeping → Muscovy Company → English East India Company → Seven Years' War → Stamp Act → Boston Tea Party → American Revolution → Declaration of Independence → French Revolution → Napoleon takes power → Latin American independence wars → Monroe Doctrine → USS Maine explodes in Havana → Spanish-American War → Philippine-American War Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumenthistory.state.govThe Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 (Office of the Historian) ↗Editor's pickBookBrian McAllister LinnThe Philippine War, 1899-1902 ↗Editor's pickBookStanley KarnowIn Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubePhilippine-American War explained ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubePhilippine-American War documentary ↗Editor's pick