Encomienda System

What was the real motivation behind the Encomienda system?

• To gain wealth, land, fame, prestige, and power for Spanish lords and kings and the Spanish Catholic Church

• To help the indigenous people preserve their cultures and languages

• To promote peaceful relations between the native peoples and the European explorers.

• To teach people in Europe more about the newly discovered people, animals, and plants of the "New World."

The system of forced labor, to mass produce agricultural products, used by Spain was called the...

• Encomienda System

• Plantation System

• Feudal System

• Mission System

Which group of people was the primary labor force in the Encomienda system?

• Indigenous Americans

• Spanish colonists

• Indigenous Africans

• Great Plains natives

Why did the Spanish establish the Encomienda System?

• to give indigenous Americans chances to obtain economic growth

• to teach the indigenous Americans Christianity

• maximize the economic benefits of the Americas

• to subjugate and eliminate indigenous Americans

The Encomienda System was designed to support what form of economics?

• guild system

• manorialism

• socialism

• mercantilism

As a result of massive loss of life, Spanish landowners sought to replace indigenous labor with...

• African slave labor

• European slave labor

• Chinese labor

• serfs

System in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills

• Darwinism System

• World System

• Encomienda System

• Free Work System

How did the Encomienda system affect Native Americans?

• They were paid to work in Spanish gold mines

• They lost their land and were forced to work for the Spanish

• If they worked for the Spanish for a few years they could keep their land

Which country created the encomienda system to convince Europeans to settle in the New World?

• Portugal

• Brazil

• Spain

• Mexico

What was the primary purpose of the Encomienda System in the Spanish colonies?

• To convert indigenous people to Christianity

• To provide education to indigenous people

• To extract wealth and resources from the land

• To establish trade routes with Europe