Unit 2 Flashcards
birth date of Jose Rizal
June 19, 1861
Galleon Trade finished with Mexico’s war of autonomy.
September 14, 1815
was a boat (“galleon”) 250-year exchange going to and from between Manila (which landed first in Cebu) and Acapulco, Mexico.
Galleon Trade (1565-1815
an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
Suez Canal
it was formally opened following a 10-year of development (1858-1869) under the authority of French representative Ferdinand de Lesseps.
November 17, 1869
government monopoly contracts for the collection of different revenues were opened to foreigners for the 1st time.
After 1850
the Spanish government had legalized the use of opium (provided it was limited to Chinese), and a government monopoly of opium importation and sales was created
During the 1840’s
Governor-General Jose Basco placed the tobacco industry under government control, thereby establishing the tobacco monopoly.
March 1, 1782
the tobacco monopoly was finally abolished. It lasted for exactly 100 years.
A century of hardship and social betrayal caused by the tobacco restraining infrastructure provoked Filipinos in common and Novo Ecijanos, in specific, to look for flexibility from colonial subjugation.
1882
ECONOMIC CONTEXT
*End of Galleon Trade
*Opening of the Suez Canal
*Rise of the export of the crop economy
*Established Monopolies in the Philippines
ordered Spanish specialists to instruct local people, to show them how to peruse and compose and to learn Spanish.
King Philip II’s Leyes de Indias (Laws of Indies) –
another social class rose in the nation because of the developing number of instructed locals. Their point was to be at a similar level with the pleased Spaniards.
Illustrados
Inquilino - means
tenant
started a political revolution in Europe and some other parts of the globe.
French Revolution (1789 – 1799
ideals of freedom and equality
liberalism
