<span>Definition of the spoils systems: The practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.</span>
Encomenderos are also mandated through these grants to convert Natives to Christianity and endorse Spanish as their primary language. Native peoples are forced to engage in hard labor and subjected to torture, extreme abuse, and, in some cases, death if they resist (Nies, 1996).
The Gadsden Purchase was a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the U.S. Minister to Mexico, and General Antonio de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico on December 30, 1853 in Mexico City. It was an Agreement between the United States and Mexico to give a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico in exchange for $10 million.
