The anti-imperialists have faith in that the Filipinos should not be seized into the United States, and that they should be their own, free country. In 1776, that is when the colonies formally professed their freedom from Britain and started their battle for freedom. The Anti-Imperialist League did not believe Abraham Lincoln would have supported –the annexation of the Philippines because the Filipinos do not want to be a portion of the United States, and it is said in Lincoln’s speech that no man should be ruled with his accord. answer from shinmin
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The concept of European nationalism was still in its infancy during the eighteenth century. What the Hapsburg monarchs had done to foster a common national sentiment among the people of the Austrian empire was to create a unity sentiment in the different territories to foster a kind of bond between them and the Austrian monarchy.
The Hapsburg empire constantly grew, as we know the kingdom developed through the years. The monarchy developed effective central administrative states buck what lacked was the sense of identity of the many territories that belonged to the kingdom. That lack of "common bond" did not allow the Hapsburg kings to instill the common culture and traditions in the majority of towns of the kingdom.
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the country moved toward its third year of the wicked common war. The announcement proclaimed "that all people held as slaves" inside the defiant states are, and henceforward might be free."
On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued his preparatory Emancipation Proclamation, in which he proclaimed that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in states in disobedience to the Union "might be at that point, thenceforward, and perpetually free.
