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Spanish Colonization

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  • Jamestown Founded

    Founded in Virginia

  • Santa Fe founded by Spain

    Santa Fe, present-day capital of New Mexico.

  • Spaniards experiment with wheat farming

    *day and month are not approximate Governor Benito Ruiz Salazar de Vallecilla planted a large tract in wheat to satisfy his countrymen's continual craving for white bread.

  • Pueblo Indians Revolt

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    12 years of fighting for the Spanish to free the Pueblo Indiand in New Mexico.
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    Third expedition which came to Texas

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    Brought many domestic animals and a large supply of corn.
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    Spain's humiliating defeat by the British in the Seven Years War

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  • Crown sought to exert its authority over the Catholic Church

    *day and month are not approximate Ordering the expulsion of Jesuits from all Spanish territiories, including the American colonies.

  • Junipero Serra finds first mission

    in Alta California at San Diego

  • Trade between Spanish ports and America was liberlaized

    *day and month are not approximate Designed to increase colonial commerce with the metropolis.
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    Franciscans established nine new mission in Alta California

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  • The Treaty of San Lorenzo signed

  • Spanish War of Independence

    Spanish Americans demand independence from their mother country, Spain.
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    Spanish American wars of independence

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  • Spanish Cortes passed a law calling for the secularization of frontier missions in the New World

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  • United States takes back Florida from Spain

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  • the Spanish crown established and maintained settlements from Florida to California

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  • Mexican Independence

    *day and month are not approximate Mexico founded with a Republican Constitution.
    Spanish rule in North America ends.

  • Emancipation of most of Spain's American territories

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