Group 4 THE PROPAGANDA MOVEMENT Flashcards
The Philippine Propaganda Movement encompassed the activities of a group based in Spain but coming from the Philippines, composed of
Indios
Mestizos
Insulares
Peninsulares
-(indigenous peoples) is a
Indios
-(mixed race),is a
Mestizos
(Spaniards born in the Philippines, also known as “Filipinos”
Insulares
-(Spaniards born in Spain) who called for political reforms in the Philippines in the late 19th century, and produced books, leaflets, and newspaper articles to educate others about their goals and issues they were trying to solve.
Peninsulares
- reform and national consciousness movement that arose among young Filipino expatriates in the late 19th century.
Propaganda Movement
- Although its adherents expressed loyalty to the Spanish colonial government, harshly repressed the movement and executed its most prominent member, José Rizal.
Spanish authorities
Aim of Propaganda Movement
- Equality of Filipino and Spaniard before the law.
- Assimilation of the Philippines as a regular province in Spain.
- Restoration of Philippines representation in Cortes.
- Filipinazation of Philippines parishes
- Individual liberties for Filipino.
In 1888 Filipino expatriate journalist founded the newspaper La Solidaridad in Barcelona
Graciano Lopez Jaena
urged reforms in both religion and government in the Philippines, and it served as the voice of what became known as the Propaganda Movement.
La Solidaridad
.- One of the foremost contributors to La Solidaridad was the precocious
José Rizal y Mercado
Rizal wrote two political novels:
Noli me tangere (1887; Touch Me Not) and El filibusterismo (1891; The Reign of Greed)
-emerged as the three leading figures of the Propaganda Movement, and magazines, poetry, and pamphleteering flourished.
López Jaena, Rizal, and journalist Marcelo del Pilar
Noli me tangere means -
(1887; Touch Me Not)
El filibusterismo means-
1891; The Reign of Greed)
- remained abroad
López Jaena and Pilar
López Jaena and Pilar remained abroad, in 1892 Rizal returned home and founded the Liga Filipina,
Liga Filipina, -
a modest reform-minded society that was loyal to Spain and breathed no word of independence.
Liga Filipina -
-Shocked by the arrest of Rizal, these activists formed the Katipunan under the leadership of a self-educated warehouseman.
Andres Bonifacio
- Bonifacio issued the Grito de Balintawak (“the Cry of Balintawak”), calling for an armed uprising against the Spanish.
August 26, 1896
Grito de Balintawak means-
(“the Cry of Balintawak”),
The centre of the revolt was in Cavite province, where Filipino independence leader first came into prominence.
Emilio Aguinaldo-
- Although Rizal had no connection to the uprising or Katipunan, the Spanish military arrested him and, after a farcical trial, found him guilty of sedition. He was executed by a firing squad in Manila on.
December 30, 1896
The execution of Rizal breathed new life into the insurrection, and the Philippine Revolution spread to the provinces of -
Pangasinan, Zambales, and Ilocos.
- With the destruction of the U.S. battleship Maine on, in the harbour of Havana, Cuba, and the subsequent wave of public indignation, hostilities erupted between Spain and the United States.
February 15, 1898