Activity no. 2
Instruction: Make a graphic organizer covering the different developments in the Philippines
in the 19th Century. The graphic organizer should be able to show the connection(s) of these
developments to Rizal and/or his family.
Political Development
The economic growth made important
consequences in politics. Because of this,
modernized Filipinos saw the colonial policies of
Spain as a hindrance of economical and political
progress and a threat to everything that they
achieved. So nationalists like Rizal himself began
to flourish.
Economic Development
The increasing growth of exporting in the
Philippines brought prosperity to the middle
and upper class Filipinos who were in a
petition to profit by it. They bargain
agricultural products with other countries so
Filipino Hacenderos, friars, and inquilinos
profited the most in that time. Domingo Lam-
co, Rizal's Chinese ancestor in the father's side
is one of them.
Religious Development
Long before the arrival of the Spanish, the
indigenous Filipinos had their own religions. The
Filipinos appeared to have absorbed Catholicism
from the Spanish after over 400 years of Spanish
involvement in the Philippines. Changes in religious
beliefs should be mirrored in changes in practices,
which can be detected in the archaeological record,
especially in shift in burial traditions. The location
of burials, position of both the body and burial
goods, and decoration of burial goods may indicate
ritual. Despite claims made by the Spanish about the
overwhelming acceptance of Catholicism in the
Philippines, the influence of Spanish colonialism
was not as widespread as was advertised. The
indigenous Filipinos continued their own burial
practices, and thus continued to follow their own
religions, beyond the influence of Spanish
colonialism which was centered in and immediately
surrounding large trade cities.
Cultural Development
The cultural change accompanying the fast expansion
of education from 1860 was a crucial factor in the
formation of nationalism in the late nineteenth
century. The return of the Jesuits had a significant
impact on educational advances in the nineteenth
century. Returning in 1859, they took charge in the
evangelization of Mindanao and also returned with
ideas and methods new to the Philippine Educational
System. Greek, French, and English were added to the
Languages studies aside from the initial Spanish and
Greek. Ideas about nationalism was now then awaken
in secondary school during these times.
19th Century
Philippines
19th Century
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