Politics in the Spanish Philippines

Question 1

Who represented the king/queen of Spain in the Philippines?

Answer 1

Governor-general

Question 2

Had _____ during typhoons, floods, epidemics, earthquakes, etc.

Answer 2

Blanket authority

Question 3

How was the country ruled through Mexico?

Answer 3

Consejo de las Indias or Council of the Indies

Question 4

Supreme court

Answer 4

Real Audiencia

Question 5

The Real Audiencia was composed of what and had what responsibility?

Answer 5

Oidores (judges) checked the activities of the governor general

Question 6

The Real Audiencia gave power to who to check on the governor-general?

Answer 6

Residencia (a committee)

Question 7

The governor-general was honorary head of what?

Answer 7

Real Audiencia

Question 8

What union existed during the Spanish occupation?

Answer 8

Union of Church and State

Question 9

What did this union mean?

Answer 9

The church could meddle in government matters and vice versa

Question 10

Who is the vice-patron of the church?

Answer 10

Governor-general

Question 11

Peninsular

Answer 11

Spaniard born in Spain

Question 12

Insular

Answer 12

Spaniard born in the Philippines

Question 13

Office of the governor-general

Answer 13

ayuntamiento in Intramuros

Question 14

Summer residence of the governor-general

Answer 14

Malacañang Palaca

Question 15

Who could become a governor-general?

Answer 15

Peninsular

Question 16

Who could not become a governor-general?

Answer 16

Insulars and mestizos

Question 17

Two kinds of provinces

Answer 17

Corregimiento and Alcaldia

Question 18

Who headed corregimientos?

Answer 18

Corregidor

Question 19

Qualifications to be a corregidor?

Answer 19

Could not pay taxes and had to be knowledgeable of military strategies

Question 20

Who headed Alcaldias?

Answer 20

Alcalde-mayor or provincial governor

Question 21

Qualifications to be an alcalde-mayor?

Answer 21

Peninsular, (most of the time) a lawyer, could engage in trade

Question 22

What was under the provincial government?

Answer 22

Municipal government

Question 23

A town/pueblo was headed by who?

Answer 23

Gobernadorcillo or kapitan municipal or kapitan

Question 24

Where did gobernadorcillos de chinos exist?

Answer 24

Binondo

Question 25

Who were responsible for the collection of taxes?

Answer 25

Gobernadorcillos and cabezas

Question 26

Qualification to be a gobernadorcillo or cabeza?

Answer 26

Be rich because they had to pay for the taxes of the people who went to the mountains

Question 27

What is the highest position a Filipino could take?

Answer 27

Gobernadorcillo