History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0304 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Santa Fe and New Mexico
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The idea
Juan de Oñate explored the south-west in the late fifteen nineties. Spain hoped for gold and silver and found little. Settlers founded Santa Fe in sixteen ten.
In practice
A capital planted where Pueblo villages already stood.
Where people slip
It became the Kingdom of New Mexico, an outpost of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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