The spanish monarchy abolished the encomieda system because the system

Native people were being brutalized and oppressed under this system. Many wereliterally worked to death. Missionaries there had become involved in trying tostop this abuse of native peoples. Queen Isabella did not want the nativestreated as slaves and viewed them as a free and independent people. As a resultof the abuse, the encomienda system was abolished by the Spanish crown.

Of the revolutions of 1848.