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Most of the culture that the Philippines had were a mix of different cultures because the colony before the U.S. was the Spaniards who were catholic but also were Muslim. The other half of the majority of the Philippines culture are Southeast Asian who use .

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The person that was in charge of the american colonization of the Philippines was president William McKinley. During the colonization of the Philippines it started a war called Philippine-American War. Civilians revolted against the Americans at the beginning but during the war civilians either died from disease, starvation or combat.

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During the colonial invasion of the Philippines people mostly worked in agriculture industries for sugar which was exported to the U.S.  The sugar industry was a very popular product. They had refineries around the area that processed sugarcane's and prepared it for export. Tobacco was a well known crop that the Philippines produced.

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Some of the natural resources that the Philippines had were copper, timber, nickel, silver and gold.

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The Philippines is comprised of 7,107 islands in the South China, Philippine, Sulu, and Celebes Seas, along with the Luzon Strait. It is mostly mountainous with narrow to large coastal lowlands, depending on the island. The climate of the Philippines is tropical marine with a northeast monsoon. https://www.thoughtco.com/geography-of-the-philippines-1435646

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The founder of the colony of the Philippines wasn't really a founder but a President who took action at the right time to invade. His name was president William McKinley, he saw the Philippines as a protectorate of the U.S. or to see it all turn into an American colony. He started the Philippine-American War that even after the war was over in 1902 it still was going on until 1913. In 1935 it became it's own colony.

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The colony benefited the United States with more land and to have a protectorate for the U.S.