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LESSON IV SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ISSUES  LAND REFORM IN THE PHILIPPINES HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FEUDALISM IN THE  ENCOMIENDAS - An economic system which resulted in the exploitation of the natives - The lands were awarded as royal grants...

LESSON IV SOCIAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ISSUES  LAND REFORM IN THE PHILIPPINES HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FEUDALISM IN THE  ENCOMIENDAS - An economic system which resulted in the exploitation of the natives - The lands were awarded as royal grants to the colonial officials and Catholic religious orders in  ENCOMENDEROS - Rants by usurping ownership of the lands previously develop by the people  ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM - Friars want to abolish encomienda system - The decline of the galleon trade paved way for the intensified exploitation of the natives - Royal Company of Spain  ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM - Tobacco monopoly compelled the farmers to plant tobacco - Papeletas or certificate of credits instead of cash - Hacenderos were the Spanish Church, the Chinese, the Principalia, the descendants of the Datus and chiefs of Spanish  ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM - Tobacco monopoly compelled the farmers to plant tobacco - Papeletas or certificate of credits instead of cash - Hacenderos were the Spanish Church, the Chinese, the Principalia, the descendants of the Datus and chiefs of Spanish LAND REFORM IN THE PHILIPPINES LAND REFORM MEASURES: FROM THE AMERICAN PERIOD TO MACAPAL PRESIDENCY - Land Registration Act of 1902, which facilitated of issuance of Land Titles to the Filipinos - Cadastral Act, was passed which aim at rectifying previous errors in land titles - In 1933 Rice Tenancy Act was passed which declared the tenancy arrangements in which - Commonwealth Act of 4133 of 1933, which required the landlords in sugar lands to show receipts from the milling central on the amount of sugar cane harvested and the quantity and value of sugar and molasses that come off the milling process  MANUEL LUIS QUEZON - Regulation of tenancy relations - Organized and land settlement in Mindanao for the landless of Luzon and Cebu - Anti-usury law - Issuance of free patents to homesteaders on cultivable public land - Landed states, policy which provides funds for the negotiated purchase of large holdings for resale to the tenants - National Land Settlement Administration to operate two settlement projects in south- western Mindanao and in Cagayan for the settlement of rebellious peasants  MANUEL ROXAS - New tenancy law - Usury will be stamped out - Lands will be purchased by the government and re-sold to tenants - Agricultural areas will be opened to settlement - Modern methods of agriculture will be taught - Farm machinery will be available  ELPIDIO QUIRINO - Bell mission in 1950, acquiring large estates at fair value for resale in small holdings to tillers of the soil - Expanded programs for organized settlement on virgin land - Improved administration of land registration and homesteading of public land - Land Settlement Development Corporation(LASEDECO), for the  RAMON MAGSAYSAY - Economic Development Corporation(EDCOR), which settle more or less 1, 000 families - National Resettlement and Rehabilitation Administration, take care of the resettlement of the peasants - Land Reform Act of 1954 - Land Tenure Administration, the purpose of which was to expropriate  DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL - Agricultural Land Reform Code, reduced the land rent to the average of 25 percent of the last three annual harvests preceding the rent reduction agreement  FERDINAND EDRALIN MARCOS - Tenant Emancipation Decree, which abolished tenancy in rice and corn lands  CORAZON C. AQUINO - Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, which limits the ownership of agricultural lands to five hectares only - Land tenure improvement, it seeks to hasten the distribution of lands to landless farmers - Comprehensive Agrarian reform program with extensions, which provided for a five year extension to cover the distribution of 1.1 million