456, enacted March 24, 1934), is an Act of Congress that established the process for the Philippines, then an American territory, to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period.

The Tydings–McDuffie Act specified a procedural framework for the drafting of a constitution for the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines within two years of its enactment.

The act mandated U.S. recognition of independence of the Philippine Islands as a separate and self-governing nation after a ten-year transition period.

The act empowered the U.S. President, within two years following independence, to negotiate matters relating to U.S. naval reservations and fueling stations of in the Philippine Islands.

[2] The act reclassified all Filipinos, including those who were living in the United States, as aliens for the purposes of immigration to America.

Though Congress passed it, overriding President Hoover's veto, it failed to create a concrete timeline for independence.

[5][6] The Commonwealth was to be a transitional government lasting for a period of ten years, with independence to be granted on July 4, 1946.