Professional Documents
Culture Documents
DAY 14-: The La Liga Filipina and La Solidaridad: Fighting For Independence
DAY 14-: The La Liga Filipina and La Solidaridad: Fighting For Independence
• First, the Spanish high officials in Spain were too busy with
their own problems and they did’nt enough time to listen to
the collective voice of the reformists.
• Second, the reformists in Spain and in the Philippines did not
have the necessary financial means which make their
campaigns ineffective.
• Third, the reformists themselves were not united.
(Agoncillo, 1960)
DAY 17-Fighting for Independence: The Cavite Mutiny and the Cry of
Balintawak
LEARNING TARGETS:
1. I can discuss the important events that led to Cavity
mutiny and Cry of Balintawak.
2.I can point out the historical controversies regarding
these events.
Cavite Mutiny
• The uprising of the 200 Cavite workers headed by Sgt .La
Madrid against the Spanish Authorities . They rebelled it’s
because of the maltreatment of the latter in terms of
unreasonable deduction of their wages caused by the new
imposition of tribute ordered by Izquierdo.
GOMBURZA
• The GOMBURZA is a collective
name of the three priests
Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos,
and Jacinto Zamora, who were
tagged as the masterminds of the
Cavity Mutiny.
EXECUTION OF GOMBURZA
• GOMBURZA were sentenced for treason and sedition.
• On the night of February 17, 1872, GOMBURZA were executed by
garrotte in public, a scene purportedly witnessed by a young Jose
Rizal.
• The martyrdom is widely accepted as the dawn of Philippine
nationalism in the 19th century, with Rizal dedicating his 2nd novel,
El Filibusterismo
CRY OF PUGADLAWIN
• The Cry of Pugad Lawin, also
known as Sigaw ng Pugad
Lawin, alternately and
originally referred to as the
Cry of Balintawak, was the
beginning of the Philippine
Revolution against Spanish
rule.
CRY OF PUGADLAWIN
• Originally the term "Cry" referred
to the first skirmish between the
Katipuneros and the Civil Guards
(Guardia Civil).
• It is also popularly understood as
the tearing of cedulas by the
rebels to mark their separation
from Spain.