ASSIGNMENT

Rizal – The Life and Works of Rizal

Week 2

NAME: KARLO Z. SAQUIBAL BS-CRIM 3C

Direction: Depict through a graphic organizer / table mapping the changes in 19th Century-Philippines
categorizing these as political, economic, or socio-cultural changes.

19th Century-Philippines

SOCIAL POLITICAL
-The Filipinos in the 19th century
had -The Spaniards ruled the Filipinos
suffered from feudalistic and in the
master 19th century. The Filipinos
slave relationship by the became the
Spaniards. Spaniard’s slave. The Spaniards
Their social structure is ranked claimed
into three their taxes and they worked under
groups: high class, middle class, the
lowest power of the Spaniards.
class. -During this time the middle class
-They collected all forms of taxes began
and growing discontent with the way
tributes from the Filipino and even that the
required polo y servicio or forced upper class was running the
labor. country
-Purity of blood- Spanish doctrine
-Social tensions were created
between
and among classes

CULTURAL ECONOMIC
-The country was opened
 to foreign trade at the end
of the 18th century which
-Extended family resulted in the rapid rise of
foreign firms in Manila.
-Baptism and
This stimulated agricultural
confirmations, production and export of
circumcisions and sugar, rice hemp and
tobacco.
marriage -Opening of the Philippines
-Religious holidays are to International Trade and
the Rise of the Middle
observed
Class
-Malong, a colorful -Influx of European
woven tube of cloth that Liberalism
-Opening of the Suez Canal
can be worn in a variety on November 17, 1869
of ways by men and women -GomBurza (fought for the
Filipinization of parishes
and champions of
liberalism and
humanitarianism