Question

(3) multiple choice question. please circle the correct answer. spanish hacienda - owners controlled their labor through (a) slavery. (b) indentured servitude. (c) mita. (d) debt peonage.

Explanation:

Spanish hacienda - owners often used debt peonage to control their labor. Debt peonage involved workers being bound to employers due to debts, with wages often set at levels that made it difficult or impossible to pay off the debt, thus keeping workers in a cycle of dependence. Slavery was more associated with the trans - Atlantic slave trade in some other contexts. Indentured servitude had a different contractual nature and was not the main form in haciendas. Mita was a system in the Inca Empire and later adapted in some Spanish - controlled areas for mining labor, not the main labor - control method in haciendas.

Answer:

D. debt peonage