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You

stop to pick some flowers for your. do you pick all red, all white, or a half of both? red = you give white = you take both = you expect equal amounts of both You arrive and the maid answers the door. do you ask the maid to go get your guy/girl or do you go up yourself?

You

are in their room, but they are not there yet. do you put the flowers on the window or the bed? go yourself = confront issues yourself send maid = wait for others to do it You had a great time. now you go home. do you go the long way or the short way? long way = long-term relationship short way = short-term thing

Find the face among the beans

January 1, 1892 April 15, 1948

Our safest course is in the glistening wake of America whose sure advance with mighty prow breaks for smaller craft the waves of fear.

5th President of the Philippines 3rd President of the Commonwealth 1st president of the Third Republic

Gerardo Roxas

Rosario Acua

Manuel Roxas

Trinidad de Leon

Capiz

Elementary School Saint Josephs College ( Hong Kong) Manila High School Bachelor of Laws at University of the Philippines Placed First in the bar examinations in 1913

professor at :

Philippine Law School National University


Secretary

of Supreme Court Municipal Councilor in Capiz (1917) Governor of the province (1919) Speaker of the House of Representatives Resignation in disapproval of American Gov-Gen Leonard Wood

OSROX

mission (1933)

Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act
Member

of the National Assembly (1935-1938) Secretary of Finance under Quezon Administration (1938-1941) A senator and later became Senate president (1941)

Reserve

Major in the Philippine Army Liason officer to General Douglas MacArthur Brigadier General (Gen. Wainwright) General

Election

on April 23, 1946 Left the Nationalista Party Built a new party- the Liberal Party He won as President and Elpidio Quirino (the 6th President) as his Vice President Took his oath on May 28, 1946

Post-War

problems/ WW II Damages Damaged by Graft and Corruption Distrust from People Abuse from the military and police Problems with the Huks (Members of HUKBALAHAP)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6.

Economic Rehabilitation Cultural Rehabilitation Financial Poverty of the Government Maintenance of peace and order Granting of amnesty to all alleged collaborators during the Japanese occupation Parity rights provided for under the Bell Trade Act of 1948

Although

President Roxas granted amnesty to wartime collaborators, he dealt harshly with another group: the Huks. Towards the end of the war, instead of being rewarded for fighting the Japanese, the U.S. military in some cases disarmed and arrested the Huks, then handed them over to agents of the landlords.

In

July 1945, a month before the war ended, Communists, Socialists, peasant unions and various other groups joined to create the Democratic Alliance.

The

Democratic Alliance candidates was harassed during the 1946 election campaign by the big landowners goons and police They were banned to meetings. Six Democratic Alliance candidates won seats in the national legislature.

passed

by the United States Congress to establish the conditions for independence of the Philippines . This Act gave the Philippines $800 million in war damages in exchange for free trade provisions.
These

provisions included a waiver of all import duties on goods shipped by America to the Philippines and equal access by Americans to Filipino natural resources.

This

Act also pegged the Filipino currency (the peso) to the American dollar and; prohibited the Philippines from selling products that might "come into substantial competition" with U.S.-made goods. In 1955, the Laurel-Langley Agreement modified this law on terms more favorable to the Philippines.

The

Parity Clause of the Bell Trade Act required the Philippines to make changes to the 1935 Constitutions thirteenth article, (which had reserved the use of natural resources for Filipinos only) The amendment gave American citizens and corporations full access to Philippine natural resources and ; operation of public utilities while denying this special access to citizens of other countries.

In

March 1948 President Roxas declared the Huks to be a communist organization and outlawed them. It was a declaration of war against the peasant-based movement.

On

April 15, 1948, while visiting the American-controlled Clark Air Base, President Roxas suffered a heart attack and died.

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