1. In your Warm Up Section:
Do Now
In your Warm Up Section:
Explain the 3 main reasons the Spanish came to the New World.

2. Homework
Take our your homework reading worksheet from Tuesday for us to look at and go over the answers.

3. How did the Encomienda System impact the Americas?
Essential Question
How did the Encomienda System impact the Americas?
On the next slide, let’s read the definition of Encomienda System and determine what it means.

4. Encomienda System Established
1512
The encomienda system was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas. Under the encomienda system, conquistadors and other leaders (encomenderos) received grants of a number of Indians, from whom they could exact “tribute” in the form of gold or labor. The encomenderos were supposed to protect and Christianize the Indians granted to them, but they most often used the system to effectively enslave the Indians and take their lands.

5. Make a Prediction:
When many of the Natives die from European diseases, where do you think the Spanish will get people from to do the labor in the fields?

6. Blendspace
Work to analyze the passages, documents, and video in Blendspace.
Answer the questions in the document in Google Classroom
When you finish . . .
Work on AOW or Explorer Desktop Project

7. Exit Ticket The Spanish encomienda system led to the
A. widespread enslavement of Native Americans
B. Christianization and freedom of Native Americans
C. widespread enslavement of peninsulares
D. establishment of a vast and profitable trading network between the Spanish and the Natives
2. Using the encomienda system, Spanish colonists eventually wiped out their slave labor force. What did Spanish colonists do to replace this slave labor force?
Spanish colonists worked their own fields
Spanish colonists stopped farming and began hunting and gathering
Spanish colonists paid Spaniards to move to New Spain and work their fields
Spanish colonists imported slaves from Africa