MANTUANO, Donita Marie B.

Quiz in Reading in Philippine History

BSAC-1A Miss Mheralyn Fernandez Silang

The CEDULA during the Spanish colonial period, was an

identification card and residence tax certificate that had to be carried at
all times. A person who could not present his or her cedula could be
arrested and imprisoned by the Guardia Civil. It’s a piece of paper that
symbolizes the Spaniards’ oppression and tearing the same means the
start of our fight for
It was August 23, 1896, when a crowd of katipuneros was gathered around
their Supremo, Andres Bonifacio, in Kangkong, Balintawak and there they had

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 carried out considerable debate and discussion whether or not the revolution
against the Spanish government should be started on the 29th. Bonifacio
spoke of how the secret organization had been betrayed to the Spanish
authorities and warned of the dangers they all now faced. Armed revolution
against the Spanish colonizers was the answer, someone suggested, and the
Katipunan should start it. A few members disagreed but were outvoted by the
rest.
The crowd shouted their approval. Here, after the tumultous meeting of
those present, tore their cedulas and declared themselves free from
Spain. Moreover, cedula is a sign of their defiance and determination to
rise against the Spaniards. The cedula had until then been the people's
only passport to freedom in their own country.

The air rang with the people's jubilant cries: "We are free from slavery!"
"Long live the Philippines!"

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