Question

How did the repartimiento system affect American Indians? Check all of the boxes that apply. It forced them to work. It let them live in freedom. It allowed colonists to mistreat them. It gave them their own property.

Answer 1

It let them live in freedom

It gave them their own property

Step-by-step explanation:

The repartimiento system was a system that came after the initially encomienda system. The Native American population were rapidly declining, and the plan of the colonists to use them as labor force was falling apart. Since they did not see any usage from labor point of view, and plus because of the intensive mixing between the populations, the Native Americans were freed, so they were not obligated to work. If they wanted to work, than they had the same rights as the colonists, and they were supposed to get wage for their work. Also, one of the things gained by the native populations was that now they had the right to have their own land, which in turn help them in their economic stability and opportunities in life.

Answer 2

The repartimiento system affected American Indians by forcing them to work, and allowing colonists to mistreat them.

Step-by-step explanation:

Repartimiento was a forced labor system existing in the colonial era in the Spanish colonies in South America, Central America and the Philippines, by which local tribes were forced to provide labor to work on plantations, road construction, mines and shipbuilding for little or no wages.

This system replaced the encomienda because of the drastic reduction in the number of Indians who died in large numbers from infectious diseases that the Europeans brought with them - smallpox, influenza, typhoid, and because Indians were fleeing.

After the number of slaves imported from Africa increased, this system was no longer used.