PHILIPPINE

HISTORY

MEMBERS:
HENRY L. PUNTALBA
IVON NEIL AMEER
VEA DOMINGO

PRESIDENT OF THE
PHILIPPINES

MANUEL L.
QUEZON

POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION

JOSE P.
LAUREL

SERGIO
OSMENA

CREATED THE NATIONAL

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION
INITIATED THE WOMENS
RIGHTS IN THE PHILIPPINES
DURING THE COMMONWEALTH
REGIME
MADE TAGALOG/FILIPINO AS A
NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE
PHILIPPINES

HE ORGANIZED THE
KALIBAPI( KAPISANAN SA
PAGLILINGKOD NG BAGONG
PILIPINAS)
ONE OF THE PIONEER OF THE
LYCEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES
DECLARED THE MARTIAL LAW
1944
CONSIDERED AS THE
LEGITIMATE PRESIDENT OF THE
PHILIPPINES
BELL TRADE ACT WAS
APPROVED BY THE U.S
CONGRESS DURING HIS
PRESIDENCY
IT WAS DURING HIS REGIME,
THAT THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL
BANK HAS BEEN REHABILITATED
AND THE COUNTRY JOINED THE
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
FUND

SCANDAL AND ANOMALIES

INVOLVEMENT
Manuel L. Quezon made
several institutions and
programs to attend to the
needs of the economy on
his term. Healthy economy
is hard to establish back
then because we became
independent on U.S. His
effort to fix the economy
was see on the
Commonwealth Act No. 2
which established the
National Economic Council,
this act helps solve social
imbalance, land
maldistribution, provide
land to the landless and
farmers, provide housing
and create an employment
to the unemployed.

During Laurel's term as

President, hunger was the
main problem. Prices of
essential supplies rose.
The government exerted
every effort to increase
production and bring
consumers' goods under
control. However, the
greediness of the Japanese
prevails

During his time when the

country is still recovering
from the damage of the
war; the Philippine
National Bank has been
rehabilitated and the
country joined the
International Monetary
Fund. To help the economy
be somewhat stabilized.

MANUEL
ROXAS

ELPIDIO
QUIRINO

RAMON
MAGSAYSAY

CARLOS P.
GARCIA

UNDER HIS TERM,THE

PHILIPPINE REHABILITATION ACT
AND PHILIPPINE TRADE ACT
LAW WERE ACCEPTED BY THE
CONGRESS
INAUGURATED AS THE NEW
AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE
NEW REPUBLIC BECAUSE THE
PHILIPPINES WAS FINALLY FREE
AFTER WW II

UNDER HIS TERM IN THE

JAPANESE OCCUPATION,
HUKBALAHAP MOVEMENT WAS
ACTIVE.
HE CREATED SOCIAL SECURITY
COMMISSION (SSS)
HE ALSO CREATED INTEGRITY
BOARD TO MONITOR GRAFT
AND CORRUPTION

HUKBALAHAP MOVEMENT
QUELLED DURING HIS
PRESIDENCY
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE
ON GUERILLA AFFAIRS
FIRST PRESIDENT SWORN INTO
OFFICE WEARING BARONG
TAGALOG DURING
INAUGURATION
PRESIDENCY REFERRED TO AS
THE PHILIPPINES GOLDEN
YEARS FOR ITS LACK OF
CORRUPTION

KNOWN FOR FILIPINO FIRST

POLICY WHICH FAVORED
FILIPINO BUSINESSES OVER
FOREIGN INVESTORS
ESTABLISHED THE AUSTERITY
PROGRAM FOCUSING ON
FILIPINO TRADE AND
COMMERCE
KNOWN AS THE PRINCE OF
VISAYAN POETS AND THE
BARD FROM BOHOL
CULTURAL ART WAS REVIVED

HE WAS CHOSEN AS A
DELEGATE FOR SCHOOL
SUPPLIES SCANDAL
SCANDAL:THE
CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION
FAILURE TO CHECK THE
COMMUNIST HUK
SURPLUS OF WAR
PROPERTY BECAME THE
HOUSE SPEAKER
SCANDAL
LACK OF FUNDS
ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMIC DISTRESS OF
THE TIMES, AGGRAVATED
BY RISING UNEMPLOYMENT
RATE, SOARING PRICES OF
COOPERATIVES FINANCING
COMMODITIES AND
UNFAVORABLE BALANCE
OF TRADE
LACK OF FUNDS
ADMINISTRATION
GRAFT AND CORRUPTION
Republic Act No. 1199
farmers were given a
certain percentage of the
distribution of crop, so it
put and minor solution to
that but with the case of
the tenurial system, it
wasnt given notice.The
relocation of the people
from certain places,
worked at first but
eventually started a
cultural dispute between
the natives living there
and those who were
relocated.
Graft and corruption of
Filipinos above those of
foreigners
Lack of treasury funds
(This favored the Filipino
businessmen
Huge national debt in
contrast to foreign
investors.

DIOSDADO
MACAPAGAL

DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

FIRST PRESIDENT TO HAVE HIS
REMAINS BURIED AT THE
LIBINGAN NG MGA BAYANI
ESTABLISHED THE FIRST LAND
REFORM LAW, ALLOWING FOR
THE PURCHASE OF PRIVATE
FARMLAND TO BE DISTRIBUTED
IN INEXPENSIVE,SMALL LOTS TO
THE LANDLESS
PLACED THE PHILIPPINE PESO
ON THE CURRENCY EXCHAGE
MARKET
DECLARED JUNE 12 1898 TO BE
PHILIPPINES INDEPENDENCE
DAY
SIGNED THE MINIMUM WAGE
LAW
CREATED THE PHILIPPINE
VETERANS BANK

FERDINAND E.
MARCOS

FIRST PRESIDENT TO WIN A

SECOND TERM
DECLARED MARTIAL LAW ON
SEPTEMBER 22,1972
INCREASED THE SIZE OF THE
PHILIPPINE MILITARY AND
ARMED FORCES
BY 1890 THE PHILIPPINE GNP
WAS FOUR TIMES GREATER
THAN 1972
BY 1896 THE PHILIPPINES WAS
ONE OF THE MOST INDEBTED
COUNTRIES IN ASIA
BUILT MORE SCOOLS, ROADS,
BUILDINGS, HOSPITALS AND
OTHERS.

During his term,

Macapagal fought to
suppress graft
Acute problem in
unemploymentand
corruption within the
government and also tax
Widespread mass poverty
evasion.
He also aimed to stimulate
the economy and placed
Graft and corruption
problem the peso in the
free currency-exchange
market
Lack of treasury
fundsencouraging the
wealthiest families to
invest. a number his
reforms were blocked
Macapagal also passed the
Land Reform Bill
whichfreed many farmers
from slavery as tenant
farmers.
The communal violence in
Mindanao resulted in
100,000 refugees, burning
of hundred of homes, and
the death of hundreds of
Christians and Muslims in
Cotabato and Lanao.
an economic crisis
brought by external and
internal forces, a restive
and radicalized studentry
demanding reforms in the
educational system, a
rising tide of criminality,
subversion by the reorganized Communist
movement, and secession
in the south
On November 11, 1970,
the whole nation was
shocked when American
actress Dovie Beams
called a press conference,
bringing with her a tape
recorder containing erotic

murmurs, moans and the

genuine voice of President
Marcos while making love
with Beams.

CORAZON
AQUINO

FIRST WOMEN TO BE THE

PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
OR ANY ASIAN COUNTRY
RESTORED DEMOCRACY
AMBOLISHED THE 1973
MARCOS CNSTITUTION AND
USHERED IN THE NEW
CONSTITUTION OF THE
PHILIPPINES
REORGANIZED THE STRUCTURE
OF EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF
GOVERNMENT
SIGNED THE FAMILY CODE OF
1987, MAJOR CIVIL LAW
REFORM AND 1191 LOCAL
GOVERNMENT CODE, WHICH
REORGANIZED THE STRUCTURE
OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF
GOVERNMENT
INITIATED CHARITABLE AND
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES HELPING
THE POOR AND THE NEEDY
NAMED WOMAN OF THE YEAR
IN 1986 BY TIME MAGAZINE
ON THE NEW 500 PESO BILL
TOGETHER WITH HER HUSBAND

Imeldific jewelry.- When

Marcos went into exile, did
Cory Aquino's relatives
and friends take from
Malacaang seven (7)
suitcases of Imelda's
jewelry to be deposited in
a doctor's house in
Dasmarias Village,
Makati? Did only three (3)
suitcases later surface to
be deposited with the
central bank? Did a
relative of Cory Aquino
commute between the
Philippines and Hong Kong
to have the Imeldific
jewelries reset by a Hong
Kong Milton Hotel jeweler
to change their
appearance? Didn't Cory
Aquino admit on public TV
that an Imeldific necklace
ended up with her
daughter Ballsy, but she
supposedly told her to
return it to Joker Arroyo?
Didn't Joker Arroyo later
say on TV that he doesn't
remember Ballsy returning
to him a necklace?
Romualdez companies.Did Cory Aquino permit,
during her first month in
office, the transfer of the
38 companies owned by
Marcos's brother-in-law,
Kokoy Romualdez, to
Aquino's own brother-inlaw, Ricardo "Baby" Lopa?
Weren't the assets of the
Marcoses and the
Romualdezes supposed to
be sequestered by the new
Aquino administration?
Why were Kokoy
Romualdez's 38
companies, worth billions
of pesos, not turned over

FIDEL RAMOS

JOSEPH

oversaw Philippine economic

growth
presided over celebrations of
Philippine Independence
Centennial in 1998
received British Knighthood
from the United Kingdom by
Queen Elizabeth II (Knight
Grand Cross of the Order of St.
Michael and St. George)
hosted the fourth Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation Leader's
Summit in the Philippines in
1996
Philippine Stock Exchange
became an international
favorite during his presidency
death penalty reinstated while
he was in office
signed peace agreement with
the rebel Moro National
Liberation Front

during his presidency Moro

Islamic Liberation Front

to the PCGG? How did

Aquino come to decide by
herself the questioned
ownership of the
companies without
resorting to the
Sandiganbayan?
After the Marcos
government sued the
Cojuangcos to compel the
distribution, didn't Cory
Aquino as the new
President secure the
dismissal of the case
before the Court of
Appeals in 1988, through
the government's own
motion to dismiss by
promising that the
hacienda will be
distributed anyway under
its agrarian reform
program? Aren't the
Cojuangcos still in
possession of the hacienda
until today continuing its
long-standing resistance to
compulsory distribution?
Prior to the Ramos
Presidency, there were
many coup dtat
attempts and uprisings
during the Aquino
administration. This lead
to a destabilized
government. Politics were
shaken and people started
to lose their trust in the
government. During the
Ramos administration, civil
liberty and government
stability was restored.
The Philippines was
experiencing widespread
and frequent brownouts
because of the huge
demand for electricity and
the old and depreciated
power plants.

The economy is still in the

doldrums despite the

ESTRADA

headquarters and camps were

captured
joined other leaders and
politicians to try to amend the
1987 Constitution
cited as one of the Three
Outstanding Senators in 1989
among the Magnificent 12
who voted to terminate the
agreement that allows for U.S.
control of Clark Airbase and
Subic Naval Base

GLORIA
ARROYO

second female president of the

country
first and only female vicepresident of the Philippines so
far
first president to take oath
outside Luzon
former Economics professor at
the Ateneo de Manila
University, where current
president Benigno Aquino III
was one of her students
ex-classmate of former U.S.
President Bill Clinton at
Georgetown Universitys Walsh
School of Foreign Service,
where she maintained Deans
list status
oversaw higher economic
growth than the past three

crowing of the
International Monetary
Fund. Industrial production
dropped by 1.4 per cent in
1999. The value of the
peso dropped by thirty-one
per cent. Real
unemployment is at fifty
per cent of the labour
force. By September 1999,
around three million
workers had lost their jobs
to retrenchments and
closures of industries.
Issues raised by the
business sector focus on
Estradas cronyism,
especially the type of
cronies he keeps, and his
high-handed manner of
dealing with the capitalist
captains of industry. One
story circulating in
business circles claims
that Estrada summoned
the head of a major
telecommunications
company in the dead of
night and castigated him
for not selling hisshares to
Estradas cronies. The next
day, reports had it that the
shares had been sold
forthwith
THE OAKWOOD MUTINY
One of the accusations
made by the soldiers was
that the Arroyo
administration was selling
arms and ammunitions to
the enemy forces. These
enemy forces include the
MILF and the Abu Sayyaf.
Also they claim that Arroyo
issued the order to bomb
Davao City so that Arroyo
would be able to ask the
United States of America
for anti-terrorist support.
Arroyo also planned to
bomb several areas in
Metro Manila so that she
could declare martial law.
HELLO GARCI

BENIGNO
AQUINO III

presidents before her

peso became the bestperforming currency of the year
in Asia in 2007
eVAT Law was implemented
under her term
currently on the 200-peso bill

created the no "wang-wang"

(street siren) policy
appointed statesman Jesse
Robredo to serve as secretary
of Interior and Local
Government in 2010, where
Robredo served until his death
in 2012
initiated K-12 education in the
Philippines
renamed the Office of the Press
Secretary to Presidential
Communications Operations
Office and appointed new
officers
suspended allowances and
bonuses to Government Owed
and Controlled Corporation and
Government Financial
Institution board members
oversaw 7.1% growth of the
Philippine economy in 2012

CONTROVERSY The Hello

Garci Controversy is
about wiretapped
recordings of Gloria
Macapagal Arroyos
conversations with
COMELEC Commissioner
Virgilio Garcilliano. The
conversations was about
rigging or cheating the
2004 national elections.
Former NBI Deputy
Director Samuel Ong
released the wiretapped
tapes; he also claimed that
he had the mother of all
tapes which was released
a few days later. The
National
Telecommunications
Commission initially
banned the playing of the
tapes in the media, and
threatened that any media
group who plays the tapes
will be forced to close. The
tape was then allowed by
the Supreme Court to be
aired by the media with a
vote of 9 6, this was
against the NTCs decision.

There may not be

evidence yet of him
pocketing public funds but
he used public funds to
fast track the
impeachment trial of
former Chief Justice
Renato Corona by bribing
and strong-arming
members of Congress. The
revelation that he gave
extra PDAF in the amount
of Php 50 million to
senators who voted to
convict Corona is enough
evidence to support this.
In the eyes of some
people, he is plain evil. He
seems hell-bent on
persecuting his former
college professor and
former President Gloria

Arroyo for allegations,

which are proving to be
false and malicious. So far,
the charges against her
keep getting dropped for
lack of evidence.