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

Why did some states believe they had the power to overturn federal laws?

Which of the following best describes how the maya civilization was governed

Plz which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 was designed to appeal to slave states? a. congress passed a strict fugitive slave law. b. the slave trade was banned in washington dc. c. texas agreed to give away some of its land so that the territory would be available for future states. d. california was admitted to the union as a free state.