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Title: COLORADO HISTORY


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COLORADO HISTORY
  • FRENCH EXPLORERS

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FRENCH EXPLORATION
  • Late 17th century, France challenged Spains
    control of western North America
  • France already controlled the St. Lawrence and
    the Great Lakes
  • Lasalle went down the Mississippi River and
    claimed the whole valley of the Mississippi.
    (including all tributaries) He named it la
    Louisiane.
  • Soon French traders and explorers began working
    their way up the western branches

3
MALLET BROTHERS
  • First French to enter and explore Colorado
  • Peter Paul Mallet
  • Led the first French expedition through Santa Fe
  • Came up the Platte River, cut across to the
    Arkansas River and entered Colorado
  • Named the Platte River Platte means flat

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FRENCH EXPLORATION
  • Following this expedition, a number of French
    traders traveled through Colorado on their way to
    New Mexico.
  • But the Spaniards did not welcome them.

5
Spanish and French Explorers of the Plains
Blue Verendrye, 1742-43 Green Mallet,
1739-41
Red Coronado, 1541
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
  • 1763-French Indian War ends
  • This ends the rivalry between France and Spain
  • for the land of Colorado and the prairie country
    eastward.
  • By treaty France ceded her territorial claims
    west of the Mississippi to Spain.
  • Land east of the Mississippi went to Britain

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FRENCH CLAIM
  • All of Colorado was now
  • undisputed Spanish soil.
  • 1800, the Louisiana territory
  • was re-ceded to France.
  • 1803-Purchased by US for
  • 15 Million

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CONTRIBUTIONS
  • Better exploration, maps and Indian trails
  • Led the way for the trappers, traders and
    mountain men
  • Named Platte River

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Review of Spanish French Explorers
  • Spain established its colony of Santa Fe in New
    Mexico in 1598.
  • Spain claimed a huge, but unspecified, region
    within about 345 miles of the upper Rio Grande as
    part of this colony.
  • This claim encompassed all of the present states
    of New Mexico and Colorado and adjacent areas.

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Review of Spanish French Explorers
  • A century later, France established its colony of
    la Louisiane in 1699.
  • France claimed the entire drainage basin of the
    Mississippi River.

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Review of Spanish French Explorers
  • Spain assumed administration of la Louisiane as a
    result of the Treaty of Paris signed in 1763.
  • Spain renamed the colony Louisiana, but the
    colony retained its essential French character.

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France reacquired Louisiana as a result of the
Treaty of San Ildefonso signed in secrecy in
1800, but France was ill equipped to resume
control of its colony.
14
The United States acquired a claim to the entire
Mississippi River drainage basin with its
Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803. This
claim conflicted with Spain's claim to the
southern Rocky Mountain region.
15
México declared its independence in 1810, but
Spain continued to assert its control. The United
States ceded the region south and west of the
Arkansas River to Spain (in exchange for Florida)
with the Adams-Onís Treaty in 1821.
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Six months later in 1821, Spain recognized the
independence of México.
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