Which of the following best describes the lives of the native peoples under the encomienda system?
a. they became rich, but could not be government officials because they were not born in spain.
b. they were very poor, forced to work the land or in the mines, and died from beatings, hunger, and disease.
c. they stuck to their own religions and rejected the catholicism of the spanish.
d. they increased in numbers under spanish rule..

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

the us constitution is a living document, meaning that it can be changed over time as the country changes.