(Economic) The World and the Philippines in the 19th Century, as Rizal's Context Flashcards
This the kind of economy where the Spanish colonial government introduced cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, and abaca for exportation. These crops became major sources of revenue for the country, leading to the establishment of large plantations and haciendas.
Cash-crop economy
This product was cultivated for the textile industry, it’s a staple of the fashion sector.
Cotton
These products are beverages that command a massive consumer base worldwide.
Coffee and Tea
These are products, specifically sweeteners, that are found in a myriad of food products.
Sugar cane and Sugar beets
These two are used in a vast range of products, from biofuels to animal feed.
Corn and soybeans
Despite health concerns, this product remains a significant agriculture product.
Tobacco
True or False: The increase in agricultural
production and the growth of the
export industry made it harder for goods to be transported to international markets.
False. It made it easier and it also contributed to the expansion of infrastructure, including the construction of railways and the improvement of ports.
True or False: The Philippines did not receive many investments during this period which led to underdevelopment.
False. Foreign investments also played a role in
the economic transformation of the
Philippines during this period. European
and American businessmen invested in
various industries, including mining,
manufacturing, and transportation. These
investments helped modernize the
economy and introduced new technologies
and practices.
During the heyday of the ________ _______, Manila
became one of the world’s great ports, serving as a focus for trade between China and Europe.
Galleon trade
True or False: The education system underwent reforms.
True. There were establishment of schools and
universities that provided vocational training and academic education. This resulted in an educated workforce that contributed to the economic development of the country.
True or False: The peak of the nationalist movement in the late nineteenth century could be possible without the economic growth that took place in nineteenth-century Philippines, particularly after about 1830.
False. It could not be possible.
The growth of an ________ economy in those years brought increasing prosperity to the Filipino middle and upper classes who were in a
petition to profit from it, as well as to the Western British and American merchants who organized it.
export
What parts of the Philippines controlled large rice, sugar, and abaca-growing lands?
Central Luzon
Batangas
Bicol region
Negros
Panay
True or False: By this time, many of these inquilinos were equivalently hacenderos in their own right, passing on from one generation to the next the lands they rented from the friar hacienda, and farming them by means of their
share-tenants or kasama.
True
What was the average holding of an inquilino in the mid 18th century?
2.9 hectares
