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Aklan State University

College of Industrial Technology

Kalibo Aklan

CRPH (Readings in Philippine History)

Midterm Exam

1. History can somehow make use for the present, for what has happnened in the past can alter
what will happen in the future. It can also be that events have different outcomes and
possibilities, leading to also affecting the course of the future due to the outcomes that the past
has made
2. The dust had just started to settle when former President Corazon Aquino addressed a joint
session of the US Congress in September 1986. She was making her first trip to the United States
since the overthrow of dictator Ferdinand Marcos in February of the same year, and the
Philippines was still dealing with the damage his rule had caused. This included a $26 billion
overall foreign debt as well as a communist uprising that expanded from 500 armed guerillas to
16,000 during the Marcos administration. We had only begun a protracted path to recovery.
3. Cavite Mutiny, a 20 January 1872 rebellion by 200 Filipino soldiers and workers at the Cavite
arsenal, was used as justification by the Spanish to suppress the fledgling nationalist movement
in the Philippines. Ironically, the aggressive response of the Spanish government ultimately
helped to advance the nationalist cause.

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