Encomienda the right to demand labor or tribute from native americans in a particular area, first Spanish monarch granted the conquistadors encomiendas. Conquistadors used this system to force the native americans to work under their conditions, and those who resisted are hunted down and killed
What are the 35 terms of the conquistadors?
Terms in this set (35) Conquistador Spanish explorers who claimed land in the Americas for Spain in the 1500 and 1600’s; Columbus’s encounter was repeated by a wave of these Spanish conquerors who arrived in the Americas; seized the Native Americans’ gold ornaments and then made them pan for more gold and they made them convert to Christianity.
What did the settlers do in the 1780s?
5. In the 1780s, settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky: a. were especially attentive to what land belonged to Indians and purchased Indian land legally. b. found that the soil was poor for growing cash crops such as tobacco or cotton and moved westward.
How did Congress justify its claim to Indian land?
4. In the immediate aftermath of independence, how did Congress justify its claim that at least some Indians had forfeited their rights to their lands? 5. In the 1780s, settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky: a. were especially attentive to what land belonged to Indians and purchased Indian land legally.
What did the Spanish call the settlements in the Americas?
Spanish law called for three kinds of settlements in the Americas—pueblos, missions, and presidios. Pueblos (PWEH • blohz), or towns, were centers of trade. Missions (MIH • shuhnz) were religious communities that usually included a small town, surrounding farmland, and a church.
What did the Spanish give to the indigenous people?
The Indigenous people were supposed to provide tribute, in the form of gold or silver, crops, and foodstuffs, animals such as pigs or llamas or anything else the land produced. The Indigenous people could also be made to work for a certain amount of time, say on a sugarcane plantation or in a mine.
Why did the Spanish Crown refuse to grant encomiendas?
The Spanish crown still steadfastly refused to grant encomiendas in perpetuity, however, so slowly these lands reverted to the crown. Some of the encomenderos managed to secure title-deeds to certain lands: unlike the encomiendas, these could be passed down from one generation to the next.
