LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Activity 1

Direction: Different periods in history had peculiar characteristic as to how farmers own
land and how government acted on it when land ownership became a potent
social issue. Enter information below the characteristics of land problem in a
given period and how the government responded to it.

Period Land problem characteristics Government response

Spanish period

American period

After WWII
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Aquino government

Activity 2

Direction: Answer the questions below.

1. What were the factors that encourage land cultivators to own the land?
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2. Which policy or legislation serves as a negative model for agrarian reform? Why
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3. Give at least two problems that are common among various periods or
administration that characterized agrarian problems in the history of the
Philippines?
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4. Do you think land problem remains a potent social problem today? Why?
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