Colonial Policies & Essays
What was the title of Rizal’s 1890 essay that refuted colonial myths about Filipino laziness?
Sobre La Indolencia
The dismissal of tenant appeals in Spanish courts involved agrarian evictions in which town?
Calamba
What secret society did Rizal establish in 1892 upon arriving in Manila?
La Liga Filipina
Which 1891 novel marked the "demise of idealism" and warned that continued repression would trigger violent uprising?
El Filibusterismo
In Sobre La Indolencia, what colonial policy involved 40 days of compulsory work that disrupted farming
Forced Labor / Polo y Servicio
Spanish authorities arrested and forced these two family members of Rizal to walk long distances.
His Mother and Sister
Name the two main objectives of La Liga Filipina mentioned earlier
National Unity and Mutual Defense
Rizal shifted his strategy from asking Spain for reform to relying on our own country. This main theme is called the shift from Assimilation to..
Self-Reliance