Treaty of Paris of 1898

• an agreement between United States and Spain that officially ended the Spanish-American War.

Treaty of Paris, 1898

• The day when Treat of Paris signed

10th of December, 1898

• Language used in Treaty of Paris

English and Spanish

• Countries involved in Treaty of Paris

• Cuba

• Puerto Rico

• Mariana Islands

• Philippines

• a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor in February 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April

USS Maine

• He promise Aguinaldo the independence of the Philippines in exchange for his assistance in the war against Spain

US Consul E. Spencer Pratt

• He is best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay on 1st of May 1898 during the Spanish-American War, with the loss of only a single crewman on the American side.

• Hero of Manila

George Dewey

• On 13th of August 1898, the local Spanish and American generals, who were legally still at war, secretly and jointly planned the battle to transfer control of the city center from the Spanish to the Americans while keeping the Philippine Revolutionary Army out of the city center.

Mock Battle of Manila

• A Filipino lawyer and diplomat who denied in participation despite in his petitions, he was not allowed to join.

Felipe Agoncillo

• The amount US should pay Spain for public buildings and public works in the Philippines

$20 million

• Son of Her Majesty, the Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Cristina

Don Alfonso XIII

• Spain relinquishes all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba.

Article I

• Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones

Article II

• Spain cedes to the United States the archipelago known as the Philippine Islands

• The United States will pay to Spain the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) within three months after the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty.

Article III

• The United States will, for the term of ten years from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present treaty, admit Spanish ships and merchandise to the ports of the Philippine Islands on the same terms as ships and merchandise of the United States.

Article IV

• The United States will, upon the signature of the present treaty, send back to Spain, at its own cost, the Spanish soldiers taken as prisoners of war on the capture of Manila by the American forces. The arms of the soldiers in question shall be restored to them.

Article V

• Spain will, upon the signature of the present treaty, release all prisoners of war, and all persons detained or imprisoned for political offenses, in connection with the insurrections in Cuba and the Philippines and the war with the United States.

Article VI

• The United States and Spain mutually relinquish all claims for indemnity, national and individual, of every kind, of either Government, or of its citizens or subjects, against the other Government that may have arisen since the beginning of the late insurrection in Cuba and prior to the exchange of ratifications of the present treaty, including all claims for indemnity [protection or security] for the cost of the war.

Article VII

• In conformity with the provisions of Articles I, II, and III of this treaty, Spain relinquishes in Cuba, and cedes in Porto Rico and other islands in the West Indies, in the the buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, structures, public highways and other immovable property which, in conformity with law, belong to the public domain, and as such island of Guam, and in the Philippine Archipelago, all belong to the Crown of Spain.

Article VIII

• Spanish subjects, natives of the Peninsula, residing in the territory over which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty, may remain in such territory or may remove therefrom, retaining in either event all their rights of property, including the right to sell or dispose of such property or of its proceeds; and they shall also have the right to carry on their industry, commerce and professions, being subject in respect thereof to such laws as are applicable to other foreigners.

Article IX

• FREEDOM OF RELIGION

• The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion.

Article X

• The Spaniards residing in the territories over which Spain by this treaty cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be subject in matters civil as well as criminal to the jurisdiction of the courts of the country wherein they reside, pursuant to the ordinary laws governing the same; and they shall have the right to appear before such courts, and to pursue the same course as citizens of the country to which the courts belong.

Article XI

• Judicial proceedings pending at the time of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty in the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be determined according to the rules

Article XII

• The rights of property secured by copyrights and patents acquired by Spaniards in the Island of Cuba, and in Porto Rico, the Philippines and other ceded territories, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall continue to be respected.

Article XIII

• Spain shall have the power to establish consular officers in the ports places of the territories, the sovereignty over which has been either relinquished or ceded by the present treaty.

Article XIV

• The Government of each country will, for the term of

  ten years, accord to the merchant vessels of the other

  country the same treatment in respect of all port

  charges, including entrance and clearance dues, light

  dues, and tonnage duties, as its accords to its own

  merchant vessels, not engaged in the coastwise trade.

Article XV

• It is understood that any obligations assumed in this

  treaty by the United States with respect to Cuba are

  limited to the time of its occupancy thereof; but it will

  upon the termination of such occupancy, advise any

  Government established in the island to assume the

  same obligations.

Article XVI

• The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of

  the United States, by and with the advice and consent

  of the Senate thereof, and by Her Majesty the Queen

  Regent of Spain; and the ratifications shall be

  exchanged at Washington within six months from the

  date hereof, or earlier if possible.

Article XVII