History 270: The United States to 1865
Spring Semester 1999 - Dr. Thomas R. Maddux
Lecture Outline
Spain and the Indian Encounter

  1. Comparative Frontiers
    1. Spain and English Frontiers
    2. Spainish Interaction with Native Americans
  2. Origins of Spanish Borderlands
    1. Conquistadores, Mission, Presidio, Pueblo
    2. Florida: An Islan Outpost
    3. New Mexico: The Northern Outpost
      1. Indians in the Southwest
      2. Juan de Onate and Pueblo
      3. Franciscans and Pueble: land, labor, religion
  3. Pueblo Revolt of 1680
    1. Origins of Pueblo Revolt and Pope
      1. 16,000 Pueblo vs.2800 Spanish
    2. Impact of Pueblo success
    3. Don Diego de Vargas and Spanish reconquest
    4. Spanish-Pueblo accomodation
  4. Expansion of the Borderlands
    1. Texas: Outpost in 1715
    2. Arizona and land bridge to California
    3. Alta California: L.A. in 1781

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