Spanish Colonization of North America
Christopher Columbus returned to Spain with many products unknown to Europe coconuts, tobacco, sweet corn, potatoes - and with tales of dark-skinned native peoples whom he called "Indians" because he assumed he had been sailing in the Indian Ocean.
Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher. Columbus, over nearly four centuries the Spanish Empire would expand across: most of present day Central America, the Caribbean islands, and Mexico; much of the rest of North America including the Southwestern, Southern coastal, and California Pacific Coast regions of the United States.
Juan Ponce de León When Ponce de León heard stories of Christopher Columbus's discovery of a new world he volunteered to go along on a return trip. In 1513 he explored the coasts of Florida. Ponce de León survived disease, bad weather, and a shortage of food and drink to help colonize the new lands by forcing the Indians into slavery.
Cabeza de Vaca In 1535 and 1536 Cabeza de Vaca explored the North American Southwest, adding that region to Spain's New World empire.
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado A few years later (1539 -1542) Francisco Vásquez de Coronado discovered the Grand Canyon and journeyed through much of the Southwest looking for gold and the legendary Seven Cities of Cíbola.
Hernando de Soto About the same time Hernando de Soto explored southeastern North America from Florida to the Mississippi River.
Spanish missions in America
The end of Spanish colonization in America In the early 19 th century the revolutionary movements resulted in the independence of most Spanish colonies in America, except for Cuba and Puerto Rico, given up in 1898 following the Spanish-American War, together with Guam and the Philippines in the Pacific. Spain's loss of these last territories politically ended Spanish colonization in America.
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