How did encomiendas benefit Spanish settlers?

Encomiendas benefited Spanish settlers by, when the Spanish sailed across the Atlantic they found mines in Mexico, Peru, and parts of Americas. Spain was made rich. Ships landed and they got tons of gold and silver. THe Spanish affected the Native Americans had to work in the gold and silver mines.

The encomienda system (in theory) was a feudal-like system where Spaniards would offer protection and education to the native populations in exchange for labor and money/gifts. It was beneficial to the Spanish because they were able to extract labor at no cost.

Spain granted encomiendas—legal rights to native labor—to conquistadors who could prove their service to the crown. ... The Spanish believed native peoples would work for them by right of conquest, and, in return, the Spanish would bring them Catholicism.

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answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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