SPANISH COLONIZATION

Spanish Colonization



Spanish Colonization

Introduction

Spanish town of the west International borders has habitually been hubs of confrontation, and the U.S.-Mexican boundary is no exception. With the European colonizing the New World, it was a matter of time before the powers collided. The Spanish resolved what is today Mexico, while the English resolved what is today the United States. When the two colonial forces did rendezvous became what is today the joined States' Southwest, it was not England and Spain. Rather the two forces were the joined States and Mexico. Both Counties had broken off from their mother countries.

Discussion

The United States had a principle of westward expansion, while Mexico had a policy of self-protection. The Americans not ever had a in writing policy of expansion. Whead covering they had was the idea of "Manifest Destiny." Manifest Destiny was the conviction that the joined States had the right to elaborate westward to the Pacific Ocean. On the other hand, Mexico was a new homeland wanting to defend itself from out-of-doors powers. Evidence of U.S. expansion is glimpsed with the self-reliance of Texas from Mexico. The strongest clues of U.S. expansion goals is with the Mexican-American War. From the starting, the conflict was conceived as an opportunity for land expansion. Mexico dreaded the joined States expansion goals (Gibson 25-88).

During the 16th years, the Spanish started to settle the region. The Spanish had all prepared conquered and resolved Central Mexico. Now they wanted to expand their land holdings north. The first expedition into the district, that is today the United States Southwest, was with Coronado. Coronado described a district rich in resources, shortly after people started to resolve the region. The driving force behind the settlement was shiny in the district.

The Spanish resolved the district through three foremost corridors, central, western and eastern. The first settlements were mostly through the central corridor. The Spanish went through what is now the modern Mexican state of Chihuahua into the U.S. state of New Mexico. Eventually the Spanish established the town of Santa Fe in 1689. The eastern corridor was through modern day Texas and led to the establishment of San Antonio. The eastern expansion was caused by the French expansion into up to date day Louisiana. The Spanish crown liked a buffer between the French in Louisiana and centered Mexico. The last corridor of expansion was in the west, through the sea, which directed to the establishment of San Diego in 1769 and Los Angles in 1781.

The Spanish were not the only European power to colonize the new world; French, English and the Dutch furthermore settled North and South America. The Spanish and the French settled what present day U.S.-Mexico border region is. The French resolved up to date day U.S. Midwest, while the Spanish settled present day Mexico and U.S. southwest. As time went on, European influence in the district diminished. The French sold their assertions to the joined States, in 1803 with the Louisiana ...