After reading the Hacienda Calamba conflict, answer the following questions;

1. What are the reasons on the conflict between the tenants and the friars in Hacienda de
Calamba?
 High cost of tax
 Tenants are oblige to pay their rents
 Friars didn’t want to give any proof or receipt to the tenants
 Friars force the tenants to leave if they did not pay.
 tenants had refused to pay tax
2. Who won the first case filed in court between the friars and the tenants?
 Tenants
3. Who won the case in the appellate court?
 Dominicans
4. What is the impact of the said case for the Mercado family?
 After the case of Mercado family, the court began to give an order to the non-paying
tenants to vacate the lands owned by the hacienda but they refused as a result of
burning a houses and injury to some tenants. Moreover, the evicted tenants returned
the lands and Governor-General Valerino Wyler ordered a deportation of 25 people
to Mindoro.