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  2. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    In 1898, the United States achieved victory in the SpanishAmerican War with Spain, ending the Spanish colonial era. Spanish possession and rule of its remaining colonies in the Americas ended in that year with its sovereignty transferred to the United States. The United States took occupation of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.

  3. Colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1687, the Spanish government had begun to offer asylum to slaves from British colonies, and the Spanish Crown officially proclaimed in 1693 that runaway slaves would find freedom in Florida in return for converting to Catholicism and four years of military service to the Spanish Crown.

  4. Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    Spanish America in 1800, with four kingdoms: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and La Plata The Spanish Empire (yellow) in 1800. Spanish America refers to the Spanish territories in the Americas during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The term "Spanish America" was specifically used during the territories' imperial era between 15th and 19th ...

  5. Spanish American wars of independence - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish American wars of independence (Spanish: Guerras de independencia hispanoamericanas) took place across the Spanish Empire in the early 19th century. The struggles in both hemispheres began shortly after the outbreak of the Peninsular War, forming part of the broader context of the Napoleonic Wars.

  6. Spanish Empire - Wikipedia

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    The long colonial period in Spanish America resulted in a mixing of indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans that were classified by race and hierarchically ranked, which created a markedly different society than the European colonies of North America.

  7. Historiography of Colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...

  8. Spanish Florida - Wikipedia

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    Spanish Florida (Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.

  9. Spanish colonial pueblos and villas in North America - Wikipedia

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    Historical map of Spanish North America Map of Spanish America c. 1800 Diagram of Pueblo of Santa Barbara, California (Walter A. Hawley, 1910) U.S. post office application from 1866 shows the four square Spanish leagues of the pre-statehood Los Angeles Pueblo Provincias Ynternas de Nueva España mapped in 1817