Filipinos did not get the reforms demanded by the propagandists.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

The reformist (the Spanish Colonial regime obviously failed any longer to satisfy basic needs and desires of the Filipino people.)Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

Filipinos were deprived of those few positions they had formerly held in the bureaucracy while the vast majority of Spanish bureaucracy had no interest in, or even knowledge of, the country they were supposed to be governing.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

The propagandists used their pen and tongue to expose the defects of the Spanish rule in the PHilippines and to call reforms.Select one:a.Falseb.True

In the First Philippine Republic, _________________.Group of answer choicesGen. Emilio Aguinaldo declared in the Malolos Constitution his intention to confiscate large estates, especially the so-called Friar lands. However, as the Republic was short-lived, Aguinaldo’s plan was never implemented.Filipinos lived in villages or barangays ruled by chiefs or datus. The datus comprised the nobility. Then came the maharlikas (freemen), followed by the aliping mamamahay (serfs) and aliping saguiguilid (slaves).the concept of encomienda (Royal Land Grants) was introduced. This system grants that Encomienderos must defend his encomienda from external attack, maintain peace and order within, and support the missionaries. In turn, the encomiendero acquired the right to collect tribute from the indios (native).Hukbalahap controlled whole areas of Central Luzon; landlords who supported the Japanese lost their lands to peasants while those who supported the Huks earned fixed rentals in favor of the tenants.

In the face of a system that was both exploitative and incapable of producing benefits for the colony, liberal nationalists and even conservative upper-class Filipinos increasingly no longer found any compelling motive for maintaining the Spanish colonial regime.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse