Name: Bangayan, Trizia G.

Date: 11/26/2022
Section: BSBA 2-1 Activity #7

Guide Questions:

1. What was the impression of Rizal when he first saw America?

 Rizal first saw America on April 28, 1888. His arrival in this great country
was marred by racial prejudice, for he saw the discriminatory treatment of
the Chinese and the Negroes by the white Americans.

2. What happened on Rizal’s arrival at San Francisco?

 Arrival in San Francisco. The steamer Belgic, with Rizal on board, docked at
San Francisco on Saturday morning, April 28, 1888.

3. What did the American Consul in Japan and the British Governor of Hong Kong
when the passengers protested the Unjustifiable action of the Health Authorities?

 The American consul in Japan had given the ship a clean bill of health, and
the British Governor of Hong Kong certified to the absence of cholera cases
in China.

4. Why was the ship placed under quarantine?

 All passengers were not allowed to land. The American health authorities
placed the ship under quarantine on the ground that it came from the Far
 east where a cholera epidemic was alleged to be raging. He soon
discovered that the placing of the ship under quarantine was motivated by
politics.

5. What was the public opinion on the Pacific Coast?

 At that time public opinion on the Pacific coast was against cheap coolie
labor because the coolies from China were displacing white laborers in
railroad construction camps.

6. What was the purpose of impeded entry of Chinese coolies?

 To win the votes of the whites in California (for election was near), the
administration impeded the entry of Chinese coolies.

7. What did Rizal notice about the quarantine regulations?

 Rizal noticed that contrary to quarantine regulations 700 hales of valuable

Chinese silk were landed without fumigation, that the ship doctor went
ashore without protest on the part of the health officers, and the customs
employees ate several times on board the supposedly cholera-infested
ship.

8. What happened to the first, second and third classes of passengers after a
week of quarantine?
  After a week of quarantine, all first class passengers, including Rizal, were
permitted to land. But the Chinese and Japanese passengers of the second
and third class accommodations were forced to remain on board for a
longer quarantine period.

9. Who was Leland Stanford?

 Rizal mentioned in his diary the name of Leland Stanford, who was a
millionaire senator representing California in the U.S Senate at that time.
This senator was the founder and benefactor of Stanford University at Palo
Alto, California.

10. What is the present name of DuPont Street in china town?

 Dupont Street in Chinatown which us Grant Avenue today.

11. Who was the U.S president when Rizal stayed in San Francisco?

 The President of the United States at that time was Grover Cleveland.

12. How was Reno Nevada glamorized by American high-pressure propaganda?

  Reno, Noveda, now glamourized by American high-pressure propaganda as
“The Biggest Little City in the World.”

13. How did Rizal describe Ogden?

 In approaching Ogden the fields are seen with horses, oxen, and trees.

14. How did he describe Denver?

 Some small houses are seen from a distance. From Ogden to Denver. We
are not beginning to see flowers with yellow color on the way.

15. How did Rizal describe the mountains in the middle of the lake?

 The mountains at a distance are covered with snow. The banks of Salt Lake
are more beautiful than other things we saw. The mules are very big. There
are mountains in the middle of the lake like the island of Talim in Laguna de
Bay.

16. How did Rizal describe Farminton?

 Farminton - There were sheep, cows, and horses in the meadows. This
region is not thickly populated.

17. How did Rizal compare Colorado with the other three states?
  Colorado the 5th state we crossed over. There are many pines. We passed
through tunnels made of wood to protect the road against snow. Icicles in
these tunnels are very bright which gave majestic effect. Colorado has more
trees than the three states we passed over. There are many horses.

18. How did Rizal describe Nebraska?

 Thursday, May 10. We woke up in Nebraska. The country is a plain.

19. How did Rizal compare the Missouri River with Pasig River?

 The Missouri River is twice as wide as the Pasig River in its widest part. It is
marshy.

20. How did he describe Chicago?

 Chicago - The country is cultivated. What I observed in Chicago is that every

cigar store has an Indian figure, and always different.

21. How did he compare Niagara Falls and falls at Los Banos?

 Niagara Falls -To see the points that are beautiful. The greatest cascade. It
is not so beautiful nor so fine as the falls at Los Banos (sic Pagsanjan) but
much bigger, more imposing. The cascade has various falls, various parts.
There is a mysterious sound and persistent echo.
22. How did Rizal compare Hudson River and Pasig River?
  The Hudson River which runs along carries many boats. The landscape is
beautiful; and it is not inferior to the best in Europe. They are very beautiful
although a little more solitary than those of the Pasig. The Hudson is wide.
Beautiful ships. Sliced granite rocks were paved along the railroads.

23. How did Rizal call New York?

 Rizal reached New York, thus ending his trip across the American continent.
He stayed three days in this city, which he called the “big town”.

24. How did Rizal describe the steamer, City of Rome?

 City of Rome - this steamer was “the second largest ship in the world, the
largest being the Great Eastern”.

25. How did Rizal describe George Washington?

 He awed and inspired by the memorial to George Washington. Of this great

American, he wrote to Ponce: “He is a great man who, I think, has no equal
in this country”.

26. How did Rizal he see on Bedloe Island?

  He saw with thrilling sensation the colossal Statue of Liberty on Bedloe
Island as ship steamed out of New York Harbor.

27. Give Rizal’s good and bad impressions of the United States?

 Rizal had good and bad impressions of the United States. The good
impressions were,

(1) The material progress of the country as shown in the great cities, huge
forearms, flourishing industries, and busy factories;

(2) The drive and energy of the American people;

(3) The natural beauty of the land;

(4) The high standard of living: and

(5) The opportunities for better life offered to poor immigrants.

• One bad impression Rizal had of America was the lack of racial equality. There
existed racial prejudice which was inconsistent, with the principles of democracy
and freedom of which the Americans talk so much but do not practise.
• Thus he wrote to Ponce: “They do not have true civil liberty. In some states the
Negro cannot marry a White woman, nor a White man a Negress. Japanese, are
mistaken for Chinese by the ignorant, and therefore being disliked, too”.

28. What did Rizal answer when was asked by Jose Alejandro about his
impressions he had of America?

 America - is the land par excellence of freedom but only for the whites.