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The Hacienda System

Hacienda is spanish for estate, and during this period in time, was usually a place where plantation agriculture, mining, and/or manufacturing, took place. The Hacienda System, gave these estate owners, practically free Native American labor and was basically a version of hte encomineda system, where th natives were given "wages" but were still put to work under brutal conditions.

This system, like the encomineda system, was used primarily in the Incan region(Peru, Bolivia, etc.) and was a "reformed" version of the encomineda system. The spanish crown

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