LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL f.

Spain’s radical shifts (4 constitution,

28 parliaments, 529 ministers)
CHAPTER 2
g. Spain began to lose its colonies
h. The administration’s inconsistency
brought by political revolution in
1. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
France.
a. Also called the economic revolution
3. American Revolution
b. Started from the invention of Steam
a. Give the world the idea that the
Engine
colonized people can gain their
c. From Feudalism to Capitalism
independence
d. Farmers particularly men, became
b. They overthrow British colonial
workers in industry and women
master
remained as housekeeper.
c. Liberal ideas spread through books
e. Women as housekeeper or the idea
and magazines
of women as weak and should not be
4. The Rise of Filipino Nationalism
working is called domestication of
a. Factors that developed Filipino
women (Karl Marx).
Nationalism
f. In Philippine context, the country
i. Racial Prejudice
opened its ports for trades, as a
ii. Influx of Liberal Ideas
result more foreign merchants traded
iii. Secularization of the Church
in Philippines.
1. Regular Priests -
g. Suez Canal was opened and the
religious order and
transportation of goods and
spread Christianity
information became more
(Convert natives)
convenient.
2. Secular Priests –
h. British Americans introduced new
trained to supervise
methods of farming
parishes
i. Tobacco monopoly was
iv. Polo or Forced Labor
removed
1. Polo came from the
ii. Production focused on sugar,
word “Pulon” which
rice, and hemp.
means community
i. Economic revolution gave birth to
labor
middle class Filipinos, including
2. Polista – a person who
illustrados.
render service in Polo
j. Suez Canal opened shorter routes to
3. They have to work for
commerce
40 days and all men
2. The French Revolution
ages 16 – 60 years old
a. Napoleon Bonaparte
are required.
b. Abolished feudalism and monarchy
v. Cavite Mutiny
and changed it to democratic form of
government (liberty, equality, and
fraternity).
c. Known as the political revolution
i. Political and social upheaval
and radical change
d. Political ideas spread out in Europe
including Spain.
e. Peninsular War (France vs. Britain)
i. Outcome: Treaty of Paris, King
Ferdinand VII (King of Spain
that marked the fall down of
its imperial), and 1812
constitution of Spain