Philippines Political Cartoon
The political cartoon above shows the United States represented as a bald eagle already devouring other parts of the world looking towards the Philippines as its next target. Imperialism at the time was a practice that the United States was adopting in order to gain more power and footholds in the world in order to become a more dominant force in the world. The Filipinos did not give up their land so easily and fought for an exteneded period of time. In the end however they lost and the United States had a massive presence on the islands until they were given their long desired freedom on July 4, 1946.