Colonial experience

  Philippines was a colony of Spain and US for over 300 years. Spain was the first country to colonize Philippines. Spainish people administered Philippines as a province of New Spain and used their products for Spain monopoly trade. Galleons from Spain shipped oriental goods from Philippines to Manila and other countries (A). Spanish governed the Philippines until the end of 19th century. In 19th century, Spain's rule was threatened by many other countries such as China, Dutch and England. Moreover, Chinese and Filipinos revolted against Spanish in 1820s. Due to these reasons, Spain opened Philippines' port to world which made them to export sugar, coconuts and other oriental goods (D). However, Spain lost in Spanish-American war in 1898 and lost their important colony, Philippines (E).

Spanish Galleon

  After Philippines became independent from Spain, they were ruled again by US. US wanted to make Philippines as a supplier country to help US. They wanted raw materials from Philippines' land and expected Filipino to become a buyer of finished goods from US (A). From 1898 to 1946, US ruled Philippines for their own profit and made Filipinos to supply them for World war II (E).