LAS 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Agustín De Iturbide, John Cabot, Manifest Destiny
25 Sep 2017
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Role of religion: very important because they originally came to spread the catholic religion. Began to realize how much money could be paid from expansion and ally making with those living in spanish colony. Missionaries sent to territories had their own interests. Nueva espana was claimed by the spanish crown. Role of race: created hierarchies among peopledeveloped categories for all the people. The lands along the frontier that are usually known as buffer zones . The purpose of these borderlands was to protect new spain. Missions spread throughout the borderlands and many of the names were kept for major cities around the country. Multiracial societies became the norm in florida. 1540: francisco coronado and other explorers ventured through the south and southwestern us. Texas was sparsely populated and used as a large buffer zone. John cabot sent to explore in 1497 and laid claim to north america. Henry viii broke with catholic church and caused new factions to be created.
