He founded America , and rightfully named after him . So feeling pretty good
<span>Native people were being brutalized and oppressed under this system. Many wereliterally worked to death. Missionaries there had become involved in trying tostop this abuse of native peoples. Queen Isabella did not want the nativestreated as slaves and viewed them as a free and independent people. As a resultof the abuse, the encomienda system was abolished by the Spanish crown.</span>
I’m not sure how many they gained but i do know that they had 53 seats after the 2010 census