Eugene S.

Laroa

BSIT 1R6

The Tydings–McDuffie Act

- officially the Philippine Independence Act, is an United States
federal law that established the process for the Philippines, then
an American colony, to become an independent country after a
ten-year transition period.

-Tydings-McDuffie Act, also called Philippine Commonwealth

and Independence Act, (1934), the U.S. statute that provided for
Philippine independence, to take effect on July 4, 1946, after a
10-year transitional period of Commonwealth government. The bill
was signed by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 24,
1934, and was sent to the Philippine Senate for approval.
Although that body had previously rejected the similar Hare-
Hawes-Cutting Act, it approved the Tydings-McDuffie Act on May
1.

Who signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act ?

-It was signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 24, 1934.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the 32nd President of the United States
from 1933 until his death in 1945.

To what and whom it was concern ?

-It is signed to govern the Philippines itself under American
Sovereignty and to have complete Independence and a new
commonwealth.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tydings-McDuffie-Act