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President Emilio Aguinaldo returned from exile and resumed his leadership of the Filipino revolutionary forces, just as Spain was losing the Spanish-American War. Soon after, the Philippines declared their independence from Spain, who ignored the revolutionary government and sold the Philippines to America. America increased its military occupation of the Philippines in an attempt to squash all revolutionary resistance. In February of 1899, an American soldier killed a Filipino man, sparking the Philippine-American War. Militant resistance to American occupation continued until America allied with the Philippine elite and Americanized much of the Islands’ economy and politics.