The encomienda system was a slavery system except that the enslaved could not be sold off the land. a noble attempt to care for the native people. a system in which land was distributed to the native people. a model for the medieval system to be developed in spain.

Prior to the presence of europeans on the continent, the slave trade in africa a) did not exist in any form. b) was limited to internal trade only. c) included the trans-saharan and indian ocean slave trade. d) was rarely needed due to the lack of an agricultural economy.

Why did federalists fear the louisiana purchase? what did they think would happen?

Why might southern slave states have supported the acquisition of florida by the united states?