Factors That Contributed to the Permanent Division of Spanish American

Multiple Choice

Factors that contributed to the permanent division of Spanish American societies into a small privileged elite and impoverished masses include

A) depressions that ruined smaller Spanish landowners.
B) the persuasion of newly Christianized Indians to cede much of their land to the Church.
C) increasing control of royal officials and their associates over the native population.
D) decline of the hidalgo class.
E) All of these