Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 MEANING AND RELEVANCE OF HISTORY…………. 1
Primary and Secondary Sources ……………………………. 3
Evaluating Historical Data……………………………………… 4
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 7

Chapter 2 CONTENT AND CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
OF SELECTED PRIMARY SOURCES………………… 9
Analyzing Primary Sources……………………………………. 11
Content and Contextual Analysis
of Selected Primary Sources……………………………….. 13
Historical Importance of Text in Understanding
Philippine History……………………………………………… 16
Examining the Author’s Main Argument
and Point of View………………………………………………. 18
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 29
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 31
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 32

Chapter 3 “ONE PAST BUT MANY HISTORIES”:
CONTROVERSIES AND CONFLICTING VIEWS
IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY…………………………… 35
Four Sites of the First Mass ……………………………………. 38
Who was Odoric?…………………………………………………… 44
The Pangasinan connection……………………………………. 45
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 49
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 52
1872 Cavite Mutiny: Spanish Perspective……………….. 61
Injustice Response: The Version Of Filipinos
To The Incident………………………………………………….. 63
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 67
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 69
Reasons for Retraction…………………………………………… 71
Major Arguments of Retraction……………………………… 72
Case Against the Retraction…………………………………… 74
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 81
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 83
Different Dates and Places……………………………………… 87
First Skirmish………………………………………………………… 87
Tearing of Cédulas…………………………………………………. 88
Insurgent Government Formation…………………………. 88
Other Cries……………………………………………………………. 88
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 93

Chapter 4 SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND
CULTURAL ISSUES IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY……… 97
Views of Agrarian Reform……………………………………… 98
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). 100
Coverage of CARP…………………………………………………. 100
History of Agrarian Reform…………………………………… 101
Agrarian Reform Laws and Acts in the Philippines… 103
Land Reform Act of 1955 (R.A. 1400) …………………… 103
Lands covered by the Code…………………………………….. 104
Lands outside the coverage of CARL……………………… 105
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 109
The purpose of the Constitution…………………………….. 113
Constitution Of The Philippines…………………………….. 114
Kinds of Taxes under Existing Laws……………………….. 119
Four Canons for Good Taxation…………………………….. 119
Three Phases of Taxation……………………………………….. 120
Purpose of Taxation ………………………………………………. 120
Characteristics of a Sound Tax System…………………… 121
Classification of Taxes……………………………………………. 121
Kinds of Taxes under Existing Laws……………………….. 123
Kinds of National Internal Revenue Taxes……………… 123
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 125
Self-Assessment……………………………………………………… 127
References……………………………………………………………… 129