The document outlines several reasons and causes for revolts by Filipinos against Spanish rule, including:
1) Personal motives such as cutting off the annual tribute ("handog") paid to local leaders and religious figures apostatizing from their original animist beliefs.
2) Resistance to unjust Spanish institutions like tribute collection, forced labor ("polo"), and community relocations ("reduccion") as well as the worsening economic situation.
3) Peasant unrest over land grabbing and giving lands to Chinese and mixed-race tenants. The Spanish institutions of forced labor, the galleon trade monopoly on goods, and recruitment of forced labor were persistent irritants that caused many revolts.
The document outlines several reasons and causes for revolts by Filipinos against Spanish rule, including:
1) Personal motives such as cutting off the annual tribute ("handog") paid to local leaders and religious figures apostatizing from their original animist beliefs.
2) Resistance to unjust Spanish institutions like tribute collection, forced labor ("polo"), and community relocations ("reduccion") as well as the worsening economic situation.
3) Peasant unrest over land grabbing and giving lands to Chinese and mixed-race tenants. The Spanish institutions of forced labor, the galleon trade monopoly on goods, and recruitment of forced labor were persistent irritants that caused many revolts.
The document outlines several reasons and causes for revolts by Filipinos against Spanish rule, including:
1) Personal motives such as cutting off the annual tribute ("handog") paid to local leaders and religious figures apostatizing from their original animist beliefs.
2) Resistance to unjust Spanish institutions like tribute collection, forced labor ("polo"), and community relocations ("reduccion") as well as the worsening economic situation.
3) Peasant unrest over land grabbing and giving lands to Chinese and mixed-race tenants. The Spanish institutions of forced labor, the galleon trade monopoly on goods, and recruitment of forced labor were persistent irritants that caused many revolts.
The document outlines several reasons and causes for revolts by Filipinos against Spanish rule, including:
1) Personal motives such as cutting off the annual tribute ("handog") paid to local leaders and religious figures apostatizing from their original animist beliefs.
2) Resistance to unjust Spanish institutions like tribute collection, forced labor ("polo"), and community relocations ("reduccion") as well as the worsening economic situation.
3) Peasant unrest over land grabbing and giving lands to Chinese and mixed-race tenants. The Spanish institutions of forced labor, the galleon trade monopoly on goods, and recruitment of forced labor were persistent irritants that caused many revolts.
CAUSES FOR REVOLTS: • PERSONAL MOTIVES : cutting of the handog “tribute” • RELIGIOUS MOTIVES : continous hispanization of Filipinos through Religion • RESISTANCE TO SPANISH IMPOSED INSTITUTIONS : • a. unjust collection of tribute • b. Polo or forced labor • c. Reduccion • d. worsening of economic situation • PEASANT UNREST : grabbing of land & giving it to the Chinese mestizo & mestizo tenants. REASONS FOR REVOLTS
• Ex datus who regularly received the
Handog(annual tribute or gifts) from their brgy. Members were cut off • Babaylans like Tamblot & Tapar apostasized & desired to go back to their precolonial animism • Personal vendetta sometimes triggered kin related uprising PEOPLE REVOLTED AGAINTS SPAIN • Lapu lapu of Mactan ( 1521 ) • Dagami of Cebu ( 1567 ) • Tamblot of Bohol ( 1621 – 22 ) • Bankaw ( 1565 ) Datu of Limasawa • Francisco Dagohoy ( 1744 – 1829 ) held the longest revolt in the Phil. • Diego Silang • Miguel Lanab & Alababan ( 1625 – 27 ) • Tapar ( 1663 ) • Francisco Rivera ( 1718 ) • Ermano Apolinario de la cruz ( 1840 – 41 ) • The Spanish institution , forced labor, Galleon trade & monopoly on tobacco & spiritous liquors were persistent irritants that cause Filipinos to revolt againts Spain • In the 18th century, major uprising occurred mostly in Northern Luzon, spilling towards the tagalog regions • a. exploitation of the alcalde mayor • b. irritating recruitmment of forced labor REASONS & CAUSES FOR FAILURE OF REVOLTS • Filipinos live & feel apart from each other • There was no sense of national unity • Wide communication gap between Filipinos of Luzon,Visayas & Mindanao • Much less a national language to communicate & bind one another