Rizal module 3

Acapulco

Which Spanish-controlled Mexican port city served as the destination endpoint of the Galleon Trade starting in 1565?

1815

In what year did the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade officially come to an end?

Urdaneta

Which Spanish explorer discovered the return sea route from Cebu to Mexico in 1565?

Suez Canal

Which artificial waterway opened in Egypt on November 17, 1869, connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas?

Ilustrados

Which social class of educated, enlightened Filipinos studied abroad and benefited from liberal ideas entering via the Suez Canal?

Basco

Which Governor-General established the government tobacco monopoly in the Philippines?

1882

In what year was the oppressive tobacco monopoly officially abolished by Spanish decree?

Opium

Which legal substance was made a government sales monopoly in the 1840s, restricted strictly to the Chinese population?

Famine

What major adverse economic consequence did the compulsory tobacco monopoly cause among local farming families?

Steamship

What new form of maritime power reduced travel time from Barcelona to Manila down to 40 days?

Cagayan

Which North Luzon province was forced under compulsory agricultural conversion to produce tobacco?

Leyes de Indios

Spanish law that mandated the education of locals in reading, writing, and Spanish.

Parochial

The first formal schools opened by religious missionaries in their parishes.

Latin

The official language of the Catholic Church taught to native students instead of Spanish.

Corporal

Strict physical punishment used by Spanish friars to discipline native students.

Colleges

Institutions established for boys and girls that served as the 19th-century equivalent of high school.

1863

The year a royal decree was issued to establish a public school system in the Philippines.

Inquilino

The Spanish term for a tenant who held the right to use land in exchange for paying rent.

Administrator

The lay person appointed by absentee Spanish landlords to manage hacienda estates and collect rents.

Sharecropper

The farm worker at the bottom of the hacienda hierarchy who suffered the most abuses from upper strata.

Catholic

The religion made compulsory at all educational levels by the colonial government and Spanish Church.

Friars

The Spanish religious brothers who established and managed early schools while strictly disciplining native students.

Mestizo

A person of mixed foreign (e.g., Chinese or Spanish) and native Filipino ancestry.

Hacienda

Large land estates usually owned by religious orders or wealthy landlords during the Spanish era.

Dominicans

One of the primary Spanish religious orders involved in major land border disputes with Tagalog villagers.

Manila to Acapulco Mexico

Point-to-Point Route of galleon trade

Manila to Barcelona Spain

Point-to-Point Route of suez canal

5 to 6 months

Travel Duration for galleon trade

32 days

Travel Duration for suez canal

Liberalism

What worldview is founded on the core principles of individual freedom and equality?

French Revolution

Which major European event in 1789 triggered the worldwide spread of liberal ideas?

De la Torre

Who was the first liberal Governor-General who practiced simple living and abolished press censorship in the Philippines?