Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

AP US History· difficulty 4/5

The Spanish encomienda system

A
$Granted Spanish colonists the right to extract labor and tribute from Native populations$
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B
$Was a free-trade agreement that opened colonial markets to all European merchants$
C
$Established religious freedom for Indigenous peoples within Spanish colonial territories$
D
$Provided land grants to Native Americans who converted to Catholicism and allied with Spain$

Explanation

The encomienda effectively enslaved Native peoples under the guise of converting them to Christianity.

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