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CHAPTER 2 (33 - 64) > RPH > Flashcards

RPH Flashcards

1
Q

The earliest political system used during
the Spanish era

A

Encomendia System

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2
Q

Encomienda System resembled the ______ ______ in Medieval Europe

A

Feudal System

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3
Q

Are given estates and
other riches.

A

Conqustadores, Friars and Nobles

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4
Q

In exchange, what do the Conqustadores, Friars, and Nobles need to do for receiving estates and other riches?

A

They will pledge their services for the king of Spain.

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5
Q

What are the Encomendero tasked to do?

A

Provide military services and governance to the
inhabitants.

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6
Q

Most powerful person in the country

A

King of Spain

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7
Q

What is the Spanish version of Governor General

A

Gobernador y Capitan General

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8
Q

The most-powerful person in the entire
country besides the King of Spain.

A

Governor General or Gobernador y Capitan General

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9
Q

Another term of Supreme Court

A

Royal Audiencia

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10
Q

How much is the yearly salary of Governador General?

A

P40,000.

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11
Q

Why is the Governor General usually a Peninsular (Spaniard born in Spain)?

A

to ensure the loyalty of the colony to the crown.

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12
Q

What do you call the person who leads the Provincial Government?

A

Alcalde Mayor

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13
Q

How much is the annual salary of Alcalde Mayor?

A

P300 to P2,000 before 1847 and P1,500 to P1,600 after it.

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14
Q

Where can their salaries be augmented?

A

through the special privilege of “Indulto de Commercio” where all people
were forced to do business with him.

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15
Q

The Alcalde Mayor is usually an ________

A

Insulares

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16
Q

The unpacified Military Zones (Corrigimiento) were headed by _______

A

Corregidores

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17
Q

Ayuntamientos means?

A

City Governments

18
Q

The pueblo or town is headed by?

A

Gobernadorcillo

19
Q

Gobernadorcillo or ?

A

Little Governor

20
Q

Give one Administrative duties of Gobernadorcillo

A

the preparation of the tribute list (Padron)

recruitment and distribution of men for draft
labor

communal public work and Military conscription
(Quinto), Postal Clerk and Judge in minor civil
suits.

21
Q

What is the yearly salary of Gobernadorcillo?

A

P24 but he was exempted from taxation.

22
Q

Who can be a Gobernadorcillo?

A

Any native or Chinese mestizo, 25 years old, literate
in oral or written Spanish and has been a Cabeza de
Barangay of 4 years

23
Q

Who is responsible for Peace and Order and recruited men for Communal Public Works?

A

Cabeza de Barangay

24
Q

What do they bring to the Philippines to check the abuse of power of the Royal Officials?

A

two ancient Castilian Institutions

25
Q

was the public investigation and trial of outgoing colonial officials to ascertain whether they had committed abuses

A

Residencia

26
Q

secret investigation of an official’s conduct as a public servant

A

Visita

27
Q

What were imposed to support the Colony?

A

several forms of Taxes and Monopolies

28
Q

How much is the Buwis (tribute)

A

It was initially fixed at 8 Reales (One Real being 8 Centavos) and later increased to15 Reales

29
Q

Polo y Servicio also called as?

A

Forced Labor

30
Q

What happens in forced Labor?

A

for 40 days, men ranging from 16 to 60 years of age are obligated to give personal services to community projects.

31
Q

How can one be exempted in polo y servicio?

A

by paying the Falla (a daily fine one and a half real)

32
Q

Give reasons for the revolts.

A
  1. Refusal of Spanish authorities to grant reforms
  2. Policy of the Spanish government not allowing the natives
    to learn the Spanish language
  3. Religious intolerance of the friars
  4. Imposition of the Polo, tribute and taxes
  5. Monopolies and the Galleon Trade
  6. Agrarian injustices and cases of land grabbing
  7. Greed, cruelty and abuses committed by Spanish authorities
33
Q

Give the Failure of the Revolts

A
  1. Absence of national consciousness
  2. Divide and conquer policy that was applied by the Spaniards
  3. The archipelagic nature of the Philippines which hindered
    communications and simultaneous actions.
  4. Absence of a national leader
  5. Superiority of Spanish arms.
  6. Betrayals and Assassination.
34
Q

Do the Filipinos have surnames before the coming of Spaniards?

A

No, they don’t have surnames. Their names were taken from their physical appearance or from any natural event or object.

35
Q

Who issued a decree in 1849 allowing the Filipinos to change their names?

A

Governor General Narciso Claveria

36
Q

The child of the marriage of a Filipino and Spaniard was
called _______

A

Spanish Mestizo

37
Q

It was the principal form of entertainment
of the Filipino men

A

Cockfighting

38
Q

the indigenous counterpart for male head gear or hat, consisting of a
cloth wrapped on one’s head or a round or rectangular shaped hat.

A

Putong

39
Q

The women, in the other hand, still wore their skirt or ___, the ____ and
the ______. They learned to wear a camisa in a Spanish way.

A

saya, tapis and patadyong

40
Q

Give the Position of Women during the Spanish Era

A

Their rights over property which they enjoyed during pre – Spanish
times were curtailed.

They could not sell the property they inherited from their parents
before their marriage without the consent of their husbands.

They should be very obedient to their husbands.

The friars taught them to prepare themselves for marriage, which was
thought to be the only function of women.

They were taught prayers and how to behave in public.

They were not, however, taught how to be independent, how to help
their husbands in earning more for the family, how to work in order to
earn when their husbands were sick or away and they were not how to
think for themselves.

CHAPTER 2 (33 - 64) (1 decks)

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