CUENCO, Jessa Mae D.

March 7, 2017
MT211 T/F 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Prof. Horacio
Romero

CHAPTER 6 (Institutional Impact of Spanish Rule)

1. enconmienda from the word encomendar, meaning to trust, was another

revenue-getting Hispanic institution introduced to the Philippines via Mexico.
2. reduccion a Spanish policy/resettlement demanding the natives to live near the
churches or within hearing distance of church bells so that missionaries could convert
indigenous people to Christianity and Spanish culture.
3. buwis may be pain in cash or in kind, partly or wholly, as palay or tobacco,
chickens, textiles, or even wax and special regional produce, depending on the area
of the country.
4. sanctorum tax for church support
5. donativo de Zamboanga a special tax of real or rice
6. bandala another kind of tax wherein an annual enforced sale or requisitioning of
good particularly rice or coconut oil is collected.
7. cedula personal replaced the bandala in 1884. It is a personal identity paper
equivalent to the present residence tax which is required to be paid by everyone who
is over eighteen years of age.
8. polo y servicio also known as Prestacion Personal, is a corruption of the Tagalog
pulong, originally meaning meeting of persons or things or community labor.
Filipino or Chinese of 16 to 60 years old are obligated to give personal service to
community projects.
9. falla is which the polista paid daily at 1 real during the 40-day period so that he
could be exempted from Polo y Servicio.
10.Kinds of Encomienda:
a) Royal also known as crown (realenga or encomienda de la real corona),
were lands reserved for the crown and included the principal towns and ports,
like Bagumbayan, Lagyo, Santa Ana de Sapa, Tondo, Navotas, Malabon in
Manila; Lubao and Betis in Pampanga
b) Private (encomienda de particulares) were granted to individuals who were
either the Kings proteges or men who served with merit during the conquest
and pacification campaigns.
c) Ecclesiastical were lands belonging to the Church
11.Galleon Trade is the trade that runs the only regular fleet service in the huge
stretch of the Pacific Ocean for 250 years.
12.Jose de Basco y Vargas established the Real Sociedad Economica de Amigos del
Pais going in accordance with the royal order to form a society of learned and
competent persons capable of producing useful ideas.
13.Ferrocarril de Manila extended 120 miles long up to Dagupan (Pangasinan) and it
was the only railway line in the Archipelago, constructed using mainly Filipino labor
and operated regularly four years before the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution in
1896.
14.N.Y.K Nippon Yusen Kaisha, started regular shipping between Manila and
Yokohama in 1891.
15.La Electricista de Manila first electric company that powered the walled city and
suburbs by 1893
16.La Letra Con Sangre Entra Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child. The earliest schools
in the Philippines were in compliance with Charles Vs decree of July 17, 1550, which
provided that indios in all the Spanish dominions were to be taught the conquerors
language.
17.College of San Ildefonso now the University of San Carlos, the sole secondary
school outside of Manila in Cebu (1599).
18.Colegio Maximo de San Ignacio one of the earliest colleges exclusively for sons
of Spaniards that was established (1589) in the Philippines by the Society of Jesus.
19.Ateneo Municipal de Manila was first known as College of the Immaculate
Conception that grew out of the Escuela Pia for poor boys in 1817 and was founded
by the Jesuits upper their return from expulsion in 1859. It has become Ateneo
Municipal de Manila in 1865.
20.University of Santo Tomas originally called the College de Nuestra Seor del
Santissimo Rosario in 1611 and was converted into a Dominican University in 1645. It
offers tertiary education for boys and girls.
21.College of San Juan de Letran opened in 1620 and was originally founded as the
Seminario de Nios Huerfanos de San Pedro y San Pablo for orphaned Spanish
children. Since 1640, it was known by its present name and is now considered the
oldest secondary school in the Philippines.
22.Santa Rita College (1719) it was originally called as San Sebastian de
Calumpang. It is one of the beaterios which is exclusive only for the daughters of
upper-class Spaniards.
23.Santa Isabel one of the first boarding schools for Spanish girls in the Philippines
and now considered the oldest girls for girls in the archipelago.
24.Concordia College (1868) formerly known as Colegio de la Immaculada
Concepcion Concordia, a colegio for women that was established on nineteenth
century.
25.Assumption (1892) a colegio for women that was established on nineteenth
century. It supervised the Escuela Normal Superior de Maestras to prepare Filipino
women teachers for the primary schools.
26.Narciso Claveria ordained in 1849 the adoption of Hispanic names as a mark by
the Spanish conquest on the Filipinos.
27.Doctrina christiana, en lengua espaola, y tagala one of the three earliest
books published at the Parian of Manila in 1593 by wood-block printing