The Philippine Organic Act — approved on July 1 , 1902 — ratified President McKinley 's previous executive order which had established the Second Philippine Commission . The act also stipulated that a legislature would be established composed of a popularly elected lower house , the Philippine Assembly , and an upper house consisting of the Philippine Commission . The act also provided for extending the United States Bill of Rights to Filipinos . On July 2 , the United States Secretary of War telegraphed that since the insurrection against the United States had ended and provincial civil governments had been established throughout most of the Philippine archipelago , the office of military governor was terminated . On July 4 , Theodore Roosevelt , who had succeeded to the U.S. Presidency after the assassination of President McKinley , proclaimed an amnesty to those who had participated in the conflict
the assassination of President McKinley
Assassination of William McKinley
Philippine–American War