New Spain PowerPoint Presentation II. The French Empire A

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Spain and France in the New World
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The Pueblo Revolt 1680-92

• Why did it fail?
• dependency

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I. The Spanish Empire
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A. Reconquista

• Holy War- Ferdinand Isabella 1451-1504
• Columbus- millennialism
• Shock and Awe

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• 3. Caribbean 1511
• Conquistadores private autonomy
• 4. Hernan Cortès 1519 Aztec
  organizationAmerindian tensionsDisease

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• 5. Columbian Exchange
• 6. Biological Imperialism

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B. Age of the Conquistadores
1518 - 1540

• 1. Religion geopolitics
• (Isabella) direct subjects v.
• Encomienda System
• tributary labor

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• 2. Black Legend of Spanish brutality
• Bartolomè de Las Casas 1484-1566
• Response to Reformation
• 1543 Society of Jesus Loyola

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C. New Spain

• 1. Council of the Indies 1524
• Viceroy gt Creoles gt Mestizos
• 2. Encomienda reformed 1542
• - African slaves in Caribbean
• - Hacienda system (Jesuits)Settlers, not
  conquerors

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• 3. Ordinances of Discovery 1570- northern
  expansion
• 4. Mestizo culture
• - new aristocracy
• - intermarriage
• - racial caste system degrees of race
• dependency

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II. The French Empire
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A. New France 1608

• 1. Peripheral interests - Jacques Cartier
  1534 Northwest Passage
• 2. Jean-Baptiste Colbert 1660s - mercantilism

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• 3. Coastal colonies
• Louisiana la Salle 1682
• Biloxi dIberville 1699
• Mobile de Bienville 1702
• New Orleans de Bienville 1718

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B. Rivers of Empire

• Infiltration cooperation - coureurs de bois
• 2. Interior colonies
• - Ste. Genevieve 1735
• - St. Louis 1764
• Entrepôt

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• extractive industries
• - lead, salt
• 4. Habitants
• - land use
• - women in the New World

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• Conclusion
• Spanish and Indians create new culture
• French occupy the Middle Ground
• the English will employ a third strategy