Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, a Spanish explorer searching for gold, traveled the region that became New Mexico in 1540–1542. In 1598 the first Spanish settlement was established on the Rio Grande River by Juan de Onate; in 1610 Santa Fe was founded and made the capital of New Mexico.
The U.S. acquired most of New Mexico in 1848, as a result of the Mexican War, and the remainder in the 1853 Gadsden Purchase. Union troops captured the territory from the Confederates during the Civil War. With the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, the Apache Wars and most of the Indian conflicts in the area were ended.
Since 1945, New Mexico has been a leader in energy research and development with extensive experiments conducted at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
From September 15th to October 15th, we celebrate the impact Hispanics have had on the United States. Miguel Antonio Otero was an important figure who contributed in the economic development of New Mexico. He had many successes in his field of work as a government official and businessman. Miguel Antonio Otero was born on June 21, 1829 in Valencia, Nuevo México (New Mexico). Don Vicente Otero and Doña Gertrudis Aragón de Otero, his father and mother, were natives of Spain who had come to New Mexico as colonists.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a explorer through his majority if his life. He spent almost half his life in Mexico and the Americas. He was searching for a golden city. Why did Coronado to go to Mexico and the Americas? When he arrived to the Americas what did he find?
The Mexican Cession of Guadalupe ended the Mexican-American war and was signed on February 2, 1848. The major concession from Mexico in the cession was its exchange of 55% of Mexico's territory (the treaty was signed at Ville de Guadalupe). Once the treaty was signed the U.S. owned more than half of Mexico’s territory. The Mexican cession was huge for both nations, however after the humiliating defeat Mexico forced into civil war and the nation was bankrupt for nearly a century.
The new world opened an endless opportunity for nations from the old word to start establishing new roots in the uncharted territory. It was May 1, 1718, when the country Spain had discovered the territory of Texas. Spain conceited to live among the Native Americans, but relations became sour when the Spaniards captured and made Native American choose between dying or convert to Catholicism. For much of Texas’s history, the Mexican and Spanish flag dominated the state of Texas.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna signed the treaties of Velasco on May 14, 1836. This treaty established the Republic of Texas as an independent nation and withdraw Mexican troops south of the Rio Grande River as the southern border. But the treaty was never ratified by the Mexican government, and Mexico continued to claim the Nieces River as the boundary. This dispute was loved in 1848 when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed by Mexico and the United States. The treaty ended the Mexican War and established the boundary between Mexico and Texas.
Article review of Reinventing the Aztecs, Part one by Ronald A. Barnett Reinventing the Aztecs, Part one was a self-eluding article that really took away from the everyday knowledge of the Aztecs and let the reader really get into what the Aztecs were about music, spiritually and religiously from different ideas of poems and sacrifices. Throughout the article the reader listens as Barnett gives an insight of the many different rituals that were not usually given to the audience in a history book. For example most know the Aztecs for not being appreciated until several decades after the Spaniards destroyed the Aztec civilization but many don’t know that the Aztecs were extremely devoted to landscapes, and music as well as human sacrifices and
The Accomplishments of Luis Valdez Luis Valdez is an important figure in the theater and especially in the world of Chicano theater. He was born in Delano, California on June 26, 1940. He was raised in worker camps across California with his ten brothers and sisters to parents who were migrant farm workers. At age six, he began working in the fields alongside his family. This aspect of his childhood would shape the creative and activist aspects of his life forever (Escamilla, 2002).
Anglo-American colonization in Mexican Texas took place between 1821 and 1835. Because Spain had first opened Texas to Anglo Americans in 1820, less than one year before Mexico achieved its independence. Its traditional policy forbade foreigners in its territory, but Spain was unable to persuade its own citizens to move to remote and sparsely populated Texas. There were only three settlements in the province, small towns with outlying ranches. The missions near the latter two, once expected to be nucleus communities, because they had been or were being secularized, while those near Nacogdoches had been closed since the 1770s.
Miguel Hidalgo When people think of an epic hero, do they think of an epic hero as being only a story-base character or can they be real people? Miguel Hidalgo certainly fits the epic hero exemplar. He has strong enough qualities that can support an answer stating that, real people are able to represent an epic hero. Most people define an epic hero as “brave and noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by grand
On March 9, 1847, General Scott guided his soldiers to Mexico City where they would raise the American flag. The fleet had very few issues and were able to easily vanquish the Mexicans and conquer the city of Vera Cruz by March 29. On September 14, Scott’s dominant troops reached the capital of Mexico. On February 2, 1848, the Mexican-American war was ended when both American and Mexican representatives signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This treaty not only ended the war, but formally acknowledged Texas as part of United States territory and allowed the U.S. to expand their boundaries further west.
The many battles of the Mexican American war led to what is now the U.S. borders The Mexican American war led to social inequality over Mexican immigrants, a debate on slavery in the new U.S. territory, and a treaty which ended the war. On May 13, 1846 the U.S. declares war with Mexico President James K. Polk requested a war because he wanted more territory Polk wanted to get the U.S. borders changed Polk not only wanted what is now Texas but other U.S. states The U.S. advanced into Mexico on the Rio Grande river. Due to the small population just north of the Rio Grande, the U.S. was able to capture this land very easily The first battle of the war was the battle of Palo Alto.
INTRODUCTION Throughout the 1840s and 1850s a major war happened called the Mexican American War which drastically changed the U.S. and Mexico and lead to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to be signed and which established the Rio Grande and not the Nueces River as the U.S Border. This also lead to the U.S. annexation of Texas and lead to the Mexico agreeing to sell California and the rest of the territory for 15 million. So you 're probably wondering why the war was fought but you 'll find that out later.
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, by Miguel León-Portilla is a singular account of the conquest of the Aztecs in the early 16th century, from the Indigenous perspective. As J. Jorge Klor De Alva writes in the “Forward”: “victors ordinarily write history” (p.xi), and the Spanish point of view, based on the conquistadors’ account of their encounter with the natives of South America is generally the common understanding of the conquest. León-Portilla recounts the conquest in a chronological order, which allows greater clarity for the non-specialist reader. The Broken Spears is split into sixteen chapters, each preceded by an “Introduction”, which summarize the chapter’s contents, the sources used, and any discrepancies
When the did the gang start? How did it grow and develop? The Barrio Azteca was formed in El Paso, Texas in the prison system. The gang was formed in 1986 and the gang increased after 1996 because of the rise in the deportation of Mexican criminals from the USA.
European explorers and conquistadors during the age of exploration were motivated by three things: God, gold and glory. The two most prominent of the three between 1492 and 1607 were gold and glory. Beginning in 1492 gold motivated many explorers, from Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World to the Virginia Company’s colonization of America. Gold is a symbol for wealth, and many explorers soon realized the New World’s potential for wealth. The Spanish’s interest in wealth inspired Columbus’s expedition in the first place, as he was sent to India to trade for spices.