Spanish Exploration of the Americas

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Spanish Exploration of the Americas

• Mr. Gritmans History Class

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Spanish Exploration of the New World
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The Beginning

• Christopher Columbus 1492 San Salvador 1503
  Central America
• Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
• Tainos (Arawak Native Americans)
• Spain saw this as an opportunity to plunder the
  new world.

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Conquering Mexico

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa 1513
• Crosses Panama and claims Central America for
  Spain.
• Hernan Cortez 1519 -1521 Conquers most of
  Mexico. 303 years of Spanish rule.

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Expanding to South America

• Francisco Pizarro 1532 takes advantage of an
  Incan civil war and conquers Peru.

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Immigration

• 240,000 Spanish people came to the New World
  during the 1500s.
• An additional 500,000 came in the 1600s.
• Spanish influence is still evident to this day
  throughout the New World.

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Spanish Exploration of US

• Juan Ponce de Leon 1513
• Governor of Puerto Rico
• Explored Florida on repeated trips from 1513 to
  1521.

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Spanish Exploration of US Continued

• Hernando De Soto (In Peru with Pizarro)
• Florida (1539)
• Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
  Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi (1540)
• Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and
  Texas (1541)

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Western US

• Francisco Vazquez de Coronado y Luan
• 1540-1542 New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Kansas
• Joao Rodriguez Cabrilho
• 1542 Exploration of California

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Conflict between Spain and England

• Great Britain and Spain conflict over who owns
  the West Coast of North America.
• Conflict continues over areas north of California
  all the way to Alaska. The British colonize
  British Columbia and stake claim to the Canadian
  West Coast.

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Spanish Legacy in the New World

• Influence of Spanish culture is evident to this
  day throughout the Western Hemisphere.
• Religion, Language, Food, Names, etc.

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