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Title: New Spain


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New Spain
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Christopher Columbus
  • Christopher Columbus discovered America for Spain
    in 1492. Columbus thought that he could reach the
    Indies quicker if he sailed west. The islands
    that he first reached are still called the West
    Indies.

Columbus on the Santa Maria, 1492
3
New Spain
  • Spanish soldiers, known as conquistadors, came to
    the Americas for riches, power, wealth, and glory
    for Spain.

4
New Spain
  • Friars came to the Americas to convert Native
    Americans to the Catholic faith since Spain was a
    Catholic nation. They created missions.

5
Hernan Cortes
  • Cortes sailed from Cuba and landed in present day
    Mexico in February of 1519 with an army of 500.
    He met the Aztecs who welcomed him because they
    thought he was their legendary god who had sailed
    east many years earlier and promised to return.

Cortes meeting Montezuma
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Tenochtitlan
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Hernan Cortes
  • Cortes wanted the marvelous city of Tenochtitlan,
    so he took Moctezuma hostage. (the Aztec leader)
    Cortes defeated Moctezuma with the help of Aztecs
    and renamed the city Mexico, after the Aztec name
    for themselves. Mexico City became the capital
    for New Spain.

9
Pineda
  • Pineda became the first European to explore the
    Texas coast in 1519.
  • He sailed along the uncharted coastline from
    Florida to Mexico, mapping his journey along the
    way.

10
Cabeza de Vaca
  • He was shipwrecked by a terrible storm near
    present day Galveston. These survivors were the
    first Europeans to enter present day Texas.

11
Cabeza de Vaca
  • The Karankawas helped the visitors. As a result,
    many of them died due to diseases along with half
    of the shipwrecked. From then on, Europeans were
    associated with diseases to the Indians.

Houston Indian Village
12
Cabeza de Vaca
  • Cabeza de Vaca became known as a shaman or healer
    amongst the Natives. He mixed with the Natives
    for the next six years and learned much of the
    way of life and geography of Texas.

13
Fray Marcos Leads a New Expedition
  • Cabeza de Vaca returned to Mexico and reported he
    saw buffalo but no gold. He told stories which
    he had heard about cities of gold. New Spain
    sent Marcos, a priest, to check out the stories

14
Fray Marcos Leads a New Expedition
  • He received news of seven cities of gold known as
    Cibola. This was in present day Arizona and New
    Mexico. Fray Marcos continued the expedition
    until he saw Cibola from a distance and returned
    to Mexico. Cibola was actually a pueblo, but
    Marcos saw it at sunset and the reflection looked
    like gold.

15
Coronado
  • The Viceroy chose Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
    to lead the new expedition. After 5 months, they
    found Cibola with only mud, stone and angry Zuni
    warriors ready to fight.

16
Coronado
  • Coronado decided to continue exploring. They
    found a Native American named Turk. He told them
    of another city of gold in present day Kansas.
    They went and found sticks and mud, so they
    killed Turk and returned home. On their way back
    they explored Texas and reported it as a good
    place for farms.

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Spanish Interests Die
  • With no gold in Texas, the Spanish cleared out.
    A few trading posts and missions were
    established, but those too were later abandoned.

19
New France
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French Flag over Texas
  • La Salle landed on the shore of Matagorda Bay and
    built a stockade. The outpost became known as
    Fort St. Louis after the French King.

22
French Flag over Texas
  • La Salle decided to explore leaving about 280
    people to stay at the fort. He returned to find
    that only 40 were still alive. Others had been
    killed by Karankawas, starved, left by ship, or
    diseases had got them.
  • La Salle left the outpost with 17 colonists and
    headed for Quebec. (6 made it)

23
Result of France in Texas
  • Spanish now had a renewed interest in East Texas.
    They began to explore again and lay claims.
  • A later effect was that the United States
    considered Texas a part of France and that it
    should be included in the Louisiana Purchase of
    1803.
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