Americans believed that they had the responsibility to govern the Filipinos because they were uncircumcised people.
This cartoon is stating that the women are slowly making progress and might have equal rights going into the future.
The Spanish American war took place in the year of 1898. One of the leading causes of the war was the blowing up of USS <span>The Maine. In addition, the term yellow journalism used to refer to newspaper stories that may not be true but gain public appeal were growing, and it was causing some exaggeration of stories and Anti-Spanish propaganda. Leading figures of these newspapers are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. As a result of the war, the US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Hawaii. </span>
Well judging from the battle of the Alamo they didn't want it to happen.
