The Philippine’s Economic, Social and Political conditions during the Spanish Colonization until the 19th century as Rizal’s context

333-year

During Spain’s ____ rule in the Philippines, the colonial territory was enslaved by policies that domestically abused the Filipino natives.

Indies Company of the Spanish Crown

This policy was promulgated by the _______ as a form of payment in recognition of the Spanish sovereignty over colonial lands.

Polo Y Servicios

The arbitrary and unfair forced labor of ______ required all healthy and physically capable 16-60- year-old male natives to render forty (40) days of work without payment and food allowance.

Encomienda system

the ______ has made a serious contribution to the issue of land grabbing and agrarian disputes between the farmers and the landowners.

Education

_____ in the Philippines was not open to all Filipinos during the Spanish era

Manila-Acapulco Trade

Of these changes, one was the abolition of the ____ in 1815 and the separation of Mexico from Spain, which made it necessary for the Spanish Government to engage in trade relations with other countries

Rizal

___was born in an era of liberal ideologies, a development in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when, thoughts concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were blended into a perspective that increased wide consent in the West and progressive advancement in workmanship, theory, and legislative issues.

Age of Enlightenment

In the ____, the use of so-called intellectuals was important. It was the force that made people accepts the world to understand and strengthen their own situation. The goals of these intellectuals were seen as a source of knowledge, opportunity, and fulfillment.

intellectuals

In the Age of Enlightenment, the use of so-called ____ was important. It was the force that made people accepts the world to understand and strengthen their own situation. The goals of these intellectuals were seen as a source of knowledge, opportunity, and fulfillment.

Spain

____ was in big trouble during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, especially when it was vanquished by France.

Fernando VII

When the government was re-established in 1814, ______ returned to absolutism in order to control all important aspects of the government, such as political and theological principles

Spanish government

The _______ has experienced a shift in monarchy from the Habsburgs to the Bourbons, and under the new government; Spain has to recalibrate colonial strategies that had seriously impacted its economic and political affairs

Jose de Basco y Vargas

In 1778, the new government sent _____ to serve as its new governor-general.

Royal Philippine Company

Basco set up the ______ in 1785 to fund agricultural projects and negotiate a new exchange between the Philippines and Spain and the rest of the world. However, these initiatives of General Basco confronted few protections and adversaries coming from the church and financial specialists who were all of the same time embracing the old economy of the Galleon exchange.

General Basco

A product of liberal ideologies,_____ has initiated radical economic and political reforms. He lifted restrictions on the Chinese traders that revitalized domestic exchange; set up an improvement in cash crop farming; relaxed specific approaches that enabled Manila to continue opening up its external business; and set up the Tobacco Monopoly to boost the development of a trade union

Catholicism

____ was more widely used as an apparatus for the enslavement of the Filipinos, and the friars were too powerful and abusive to influence the affairs of the colony.

hacienderos

Local farmers were constrained to meet the specific needs of demand for products, while the _______ benefited solely from this development, resulting in the worst problems of land grabbing.

Inquilinos

What is more, as the growing concern about better land management arose in the new arrangement of economy, the _____ or the land trustees assumed the essential role of local farmers, and made a critical contribution to the social delineation of the countryside as it widened the wealth inequalities between natives and the landowners originating from the encomienda system

Suez Canal

The demand for Philippine sugar and abaca grew rapidly, and the amount of exports to Europe increased even further after the completion of the ____ in 1869

sugar and abaca

The demand for Philippine _____ grew rapidly, and the amount of exports to Europe increased even further after the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869

agricultural

During those days, the Filipino hacienderos of Pampanga, Batangas and other parts of the Philippines flourished because most of the products exported by the Filipinos were _____

Felix Berenguer de Marquina

When the Royal Company of the Philippines or the Real Compania de Filipinas went bankrupt due to the mismanagement of the previous officials, the world turned its attention to the Philippines. In order to change the economic losses incurred by this event, Governor-General _____ proposed that the King of Spain open Manila for World trade

Mexico

Thus, after the breakdown of the Galleon trade due to ____’s independence, the fall of the Real Compania de Filipinas catapulted the King of Spain to open Manila to the world trade

Carlos Maria dela Torre

______ was sent to the Philippines to serve as governor-general from 1869-1871 as a consequence of the liberal victory in the Spanish Revolution of 1868.

Carlos Maria dela Torre

He was distinct from his predecessors and had initiated changes such as abolishing flagging as a penalty in the Spanish army for Filipino deserters abolishing press censorship, and encouraging freedom of speech.

national language

In education, a decree was passed in 1863 instructing schools in various places to be founded and mandating Indios to learn Spanish as the _________.

sangleys

g the Galleon trade that the bulk of items being traded were undermined by the Chinese goods. The flood of Chinese settlements in thePhilippines made the Spaniards doubtful of the true intentions of the Chinese as trade merchants. These prompted the Spaniards to impose an unjust policy on ____, extending from higher cost, limiting the development and movement of their products in the Parian, to real arrangements for ejection.

Chinese

The ____, however, ended up being a fundamental part of the Philippine economy and society. Although the Spaniards were careful about the Chinese, they understood the significance of their contribution to strengthening of the economy. From the products stacked on the vessels to the improvement of the retail exchange, the Chinese have given life into the economy

Manila

____, transformed into a melting pot of the export economy in the colony, has become a viable opportunity for individuals seeking a better chance or those who need to get away from the compounding condition in the farmlands.

Principalia

They founded the town of _____, an elite social community consisting of former governors, minor indigenous bureaucrats, decorated workers and school masters.

Dominican’s Hacienda de Calamba

The family of Jose Rizal was one of the Inquilinos in the_____.

canon

Under the new scheme for a fixed annual amount, referred to as ___, an individual leased property over a period of time and it was also expected that the tenant would provide its owners with personal services.

Mestizo and Principalia

In addition, the nineteenth century saw the rise of the _____ classes, which would assert their relevance in the society

Port of Manila

Following decades of economic decline brought on by the Spanish monopolistic policies, the opening of the _____ to foreign trade in 1834 led to immense socio-economic changes in the Philippine colony

rice and tobacco

The Philippines opening up to international trade has resulted in a strong demand for export products such as -______. This has given enormous profits to Filipino businessmen and Chinese immigrants in the country.