Spanish Fur Trade Pros And Cons

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The Spanish used different practices to take direct control over the natives. Encomiendas gave colonists the right to collect tribute from natives living on a specific piece of land. Repartimiento assigned Indians to labor on public works projects, and rescate allowed Spanish colonists to pay ransom to free natives captured by rival groups. The Spanish demanded for labor and tributes even when native populations declined from diseases, and those who resisted were severely punished. The French, however, were kind to the natives for their benefits and established the fur trade. The Beaver Wars occurred between the 1640s and 1680s in the Great Lakes region.
By 1650, settlers outnumbered natives in the northern colonies due to disease. Settlers