4.18.24 Movement Legacies, Reflection, and Review.pptx
Rizal in 19th Century - World Events
1. THE CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Mindanao State University – General Santo City
History 5 – O17
June 20, 2014
2. The meaning and importance of a man’s task can
be understood and appreciated when viewed
within a time frame and its proper historical
context.
To better understand and appreciate the role of
Jose Rizal in the making of a Filipino nation, one
has to know the developments in the century when
he lived, the period when he worked.
3. NINETEENTH CENTURY
Era of challenges and responses
A period of major changes which affected men
and society
4. 6 IMPORTANT CHANGES INTHE
19TH CENTURY
1. Struggle for nationalism
2. Gradual spread of democracy
3. Modernization of living through the Industrial Revolution
4. Advance of Science
5. March of Imperialism
6. New Current in the movement of thought and growing
confidence on progress
6. NATIONS STRUGGLE FOR NATIONALISM
A feeling of oneness by a group of people
wo believe that they possess common
traditions, culture and common ideals or
goals.
8. HOWTO RUNTHE GOVERNMENT?
Country should be free from
domination and that a country
should enjoy liberty, equality
and opportunity
In the “good old days” when
monarchs and kings ruled over
the subjects
9. Greece became independent nation from the Turks on
1830.
Norwegians won their freedom from Swedes in 1905.
Italy became a free and united nation through the
work of Camillo Cavour, Joseph Mazzini and Joseph
Garibaldi in 1861.
Germany was united led by Iron Chancellor Otto von
Bismarck who adopted the policy of “blood and iron”
in 1871.
10. 1867
1800 - 1825
Simon Bolivar
“The Liberator”
(Venezuela, Colombia,
Bolivia and part of Peru)
Jose San Martin
“The Liberator”
(Argentina, Chile and
part of Peru)
11.
12. MEN FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY
Political ideas of the nineteenth century
13.
14. EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION ARE MULTIFARIOUS
Series of changes in the industry:
a. From hand work to machine work
b. Domestic system to the factory system
15. BEGAN IN ENGLAND IN 1760
Manufacturing
Spinning jenny
Spinning frame
Spinning shuttle
Cotton gin
Sewing machine
18. Establishment of factories
Employment of thousands of workers
Large scale production of manufacturing goods
Commodities became cheaper
Towns and cities grew
Improved standard of living
Division of labor practiced (capitalists and laborers)
19. Increase in population
Advances in medical knowledge and
public hygiene
Opening of more lands for cultivation
and commercialization
Increase in national income
Encouraged migration
20. RESPONSES TO THE GROWING
SOCIAL PROBLEMS CREATED BY THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
21. LIBERALS
Adopted the laissez-faire policy to stimulate the growth of factories
Allow everybody to expand as much as he wished in his individual enterprises
Industrialists became powerful and rich
Working men became poorer
Unemployment and misery resulted
22. SOCIALISTS
Government should own and manage the means of production
Benefit of all and not only for a few individuals
As long as the capitalists controlled the economic life of people, no democracy
Claude Henri, Francois Fourier and Robert Owen
23. COMMUNISTS
Authored Communist Manifesto
Earliest socialists that reforms could be achieved gradually and peacefully through
normal political methods and with compensation for the private owners
Only a violent revolution could improved the lot of workingmen
Advocated
abolition of private property in land
centralization of all means of production in the hands of the state
abolition of all rights of inheritance
Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels
Universal and equal obligation of work
24. CATHOLICISM
Pope Leo XIII in Reform Novarum (The Conditions of Labor)
Rights must be religiously respected
Duty of public authority to prevent and punish injury
Poor and helpless have special consideration upon questioning its rights
State has the right to regulate the use of private property and to protect it
Workers have the right to form unions
27. MODERN IMPERIALISM STARTS
A PROCESS OF HISTORIC
CHANGE
Activity of a nation in extending its control and authority beyond its territorial boundaries through
the acquisition of new territories
Purpose of securing rea materials, markets for manufactured products, additional food supplies,
outlets for surplus population and fields for investment of surplus capital
31. “The divine flame of thought is
inextinguishable among Filipino people
and in some way or another it has to
shine and make it known. It is not
possible to brutalize the inhabitants of
the Philippines.”
32. QUESTIONSTO LIVE BY
1. Why is nationalism a desirable national goal?
2. Why is industrialism a continuing concern of society?
3. Do you agree with Rizal’s point of view that the pursuit of science is an ideal of
man?Why?