RPH

Question 1

The earliest political system used during
the Spanish era

Answer 1

Encomendia System

Question 2

Encomienda System resembled the ______ ______ in Medieval Europe

Answer 2

Feudal System

Question 3

Are given estates and
other riches.

Answer 3

Conqustadores, Friars and Nobles

Question 4

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

Answer 4

They will pledge their services for the king of Spain.

Question 5

What are the Encomendero tasked to do?

Answer 5

Provide military services and governance to the
inhabitants.

Question 6

Most powerful person in the country

Answer 6

King of Spain

Question 7

What is the Spanish version of Governor General

Answer 7

Gobernador y Capitan General

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Governor General or Gobernador y Capitan General

Question 9

Another term of Supreme Court

Answer 9

Royal Audiencia

Question 10

How much is the yearly salary of Governador General?

Answer 10

P40,000.

Question 11

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

Answer 11

to ensure the loyalty of the colony to the crown.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Alcalde Mayor

Question 13

How much is the annual salary of Alcalde Mayor?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Where can their salaries be augmented?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

The Alcalde Mayor is usually an ________

Answer 15

Insulares

Question 16

The unpacified Military Zones (Corrigimiento) were headed by _______

Answer 16

Corregidores

Question 17

Ayuntamientos means?

Answer 17

City Governments

Question 18

The pueblo or town is headed by?

Answer 18

Gobernadorcillo

Question 19

Gobernadorcillo or ?

Answer 19

Little Governor

Question 20

Give one Administrative duties of Gobernadorcillo

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

What is the yearly salary of Gobernadorcillo?

Answer 21

P24 but he was exempted from taxation.

Question 22

Who can be a Gobernadorcillo?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Cabeza de Barangay

Question 24

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

Answer 24

two ancient Castilian Institutions

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Residencia

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Visita

Question 27

What were imposed to support the Colony?

Answer 27

several forms of Taxes and Monopolies

Question 28

How much is the Buwis (tribute)

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Polo y Servicio also called as?

Answer 29

Forced Labor

Question 30

What happens in forced Labor?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

How can one be exempted in polo y servicio?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Give reasons for the revolts.

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Give the Failure of the Revolts

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

Do the Filipinos have surnames before the coming of Spaniards?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Governor General Narciso Claveria

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Spanish Mestizo

Question 37

It was the principal form of entertainment of the Filipino men

Answer 37

Cockfighting

Question 38

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.

Answer 38

Putong

Question 39

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

Answer 39

saya, tapis and patadyong

Question 40

Give the Position of Women during the Spanish Era

Answer 40

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.