Arellano University

Prof: Mrs. Vera

 Chapter 13
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Rizal in United
States
Rizal’s Visit to the United
States
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(1888)
  April 28, 1888
The steamer Belgic, with Rizal on board, docked
at San Francisco on Saturday morning
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May 4, 1888
- Friday afternoon the day Rizal was
permitted to go ashore.

- Palace Hotel- Rizal registered here which

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was then considered a first-class hotel in the
city.

-Rizal stayed in San Francisco for two days—

May 4 to 6, 1888.
 Palace Hotel
A place where Rizal Stayed in 2 days
May 6, 1888

-Sunday,4:30PM,Rizal left San Francisco for

Oakland
-Ferry to Oakland
-Railroad train
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-Another ferry from port Costa to Benicia.
-Fields and cattle, but neither huts nor
herdsmen.
-A country store
-Rizal ate in Sacramento
Oakland
Ferry
and
Railroad
Train
May 7 1888

- Rizal saw an Indian who was dressed

half-European, half-Indian, leaning
against a wall.
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- Wide Arid deserts with few plants and
without trees and shrubs.
-Desolate, Solitary
-Mountains bare. Sandy
-Blue Mountains are visible
-its hot, yet there is a snow on top of
the mountains.
Snow on top of the mountains
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Wide Arid Desert Blue Mountains

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May 8 1888
-Rizal arrived in Ogden
-Irrigation and a good system of canals it
would be possible to make these fields fertile
-From Ogden to Denver
-Yellow flowers begun to appear by the
roadside
-Salt Lake are lovely
-rocks on one side, on other, the river rushing
excitedly, giving life to the dead landscape
-Many Pine trees
-The snow on the mountains is a dazzling
resplendent white.
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Salt Lake
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 From
Ogden
to Denver
Yellow Flowers by Roadside
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May 10 1888
-Nebraska is a level territory
-Rizal reached Omaha, the Biggest
City 
-Missouri river twice in Pasig river
-It’s a muddy
-Their banks is not pretty
Missouri River
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 May 11 1888

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What Rizal Observe about Chicago is
that every tobacco Store has an
Indian, and every one is Different
Tobacco Store
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 May 12 1888

-Rizal in Canada
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-They saw the Niagara Falls
They stood several hours to examine the most
beautiful points.
He stood among the rocks and certainly it was
the grandest cascade he had ever seen.
The mysterious sound that pervading everywhere
Niagara
Falls
May 13 1888

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 May 16, 1888

-Rizal left New York for Liverpool

on board the City of Rome.
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-According to Rizal, this
steamer was “the second largest
ship in the world the largest being
the Great Eastern”
Rizal had good and bad impressions of the
United States. The good impressions were
1) the material

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progress of the country as shown in the great cities,
2) huge farms, flourishing industries and busy factories.
3)  the drive and energy of the American people
4) the natural beauty of the land
5) the high standard of living
6)  the opportunities for better life offered to poor
immigrants
 One bad impression Rizal had of
 lack of racial
America was the
equality:

“America is the land par

excellence of freedom but only for the
whites”
End
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