Unlike most of his contemporaries, cabeza de vaca believed that the indigenous people should a. be captured and taken as slaves. b. be executed for their acts of violence. c. be observed and their methods studied. d. be treated humanely and with respect.

The correct answer is D) be treated humanely and with respect.

Unlike most of his contemporaries, Cabeza de Vaca believed that the indigenous people should be treated humanely and with respect.

Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer. He lived with the American Indians of the region of what today is Galveston, Texas. Cabeza the Vaca gained the respect of the Indians because he treated them well, with respect and critiqued the way other Spaniards treated the Indigenous people.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

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