Which of the following describes the encomienda system set up by the Spanish? A system allowing landowners to grant portions of their land to the slaves who worked it after a certain amount of time had passed A system that allowed officials to take care of Indians in exchange for labor, but often became enslavement A system that imported African slaves to farm tobacco plantations in the North America A system that rewarded certain Native American slaves who performed well by granting them pardons
I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is the second option. The encomienda system set up by the Spanish is a system that allowed officials to take care of Indians in exchange for labor, but often became enslavement. It was made to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas.
