One of the early Spanish explorers was Hernando Cortez, who conquered the Aztec Empire, he continued up the coast of what is now known as Tabasco, until April 21, 1519 where he landed near Veracruz. He traveled inland and on November 8, 1519, he reached Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico City. From 1521 to 1528, Cortez established peace among the Indians of Mexico and developed mines and farmlands. In 1534, Cortez explored Lower California and then later led an expedition against the Maya of Yucatan.

Another Spanish explorer was Vasco Nunez de B

During the war, political quarrels arose regarding the disposition of conquered Mexico. A strong All-Mexico movement urged annexation of the entire territory. Abolitionists opposed that position and fought for the exclusion of slavery from any territory absorbed by the United States. In 1847, the House of Representatives passed the Wilmot Proviso, stipulating that none of the territory acquired should be open to slavery. The Senate avoided the issue, and a late attempt to add it to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was defeated.

The missions were designed by the padres, and actually built by the Native Americans they hoped to convert. Each mission was unique in a few ways, but they all had the same basic plan: a large, four-sided building with a patio in the center. The church was usually placed in one corner of the square, it was always the tallest and grandest building. All the rooms in the square building faced the patio. The back was reserved for the unmarried native women who worked in the kitchen. The other three sides contained the rooms for the two priests of the mission, workshops, a kitchen, storage rooms for food, and the mission office.

The first collective bargaining agreement between farm workers and growers in the continental United States was signed in 1966. The first union contracts requiring rest periods, clean drinking water, hand-washing facilities, protective clothing against pesticide spraying while workers are in the fields and banning outright DDT and other dangerous pesticides. The first union contracts replacing farm labor contractors with union hiring halls to guarantee farm workers seniority rights and job security. Establishing the first comprehensive union health benefits for farm workers and their families through the UFW's Robert F. Kennedy Medical Plan. The first and only performing pension plan for retired farm workers. The first functioning credit union for farm workers. The first union contracts - in the mid and late 1960s - restricting use of dangerous pesticides, making longer pesticide re-entry periods beyond state and federal standards and requiring testing of farm workers on a regular basis to monitor for pesticide exposure. The first union contracts regulating safety and sanitary conditions in farm labor camps, banning discrimination in employment and sexual harassment of female workers. Abolition of the infamous short-handled hoe that crippled generations of farm workers and extension of state coverage for unemployment, disability and worker's compensation benefits, as well as amnesty rights for immigrants and public assistance for farm workers. Establishing in 1966 the National Farm Worker Service Center, a non-profit, tax-exempt organization separate from the UFW. It operates three farm workers run radio stations. It also builds single-family homes and rental complexes for low-income farm workers and other rural residents.

The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847, a few months later a peace treaty was signed, Feb. 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo. In addition to recognizing the U.S. annexation of Texas, defeated Mexico surrendered California and New Mexico, including all the present day states of the Southwest, to the United States.

Other explorers were Hernando De Soto who led the first expedition across the Southeastern U.S. Amerigo Vespucci, which North and South America were named after. Juan Ponce de Leon, which was the first European to explore Florida, he was searching for the fountain of youth. Although there are many other famous Spanish explorers, these are enough to realize that without the Spanish explorers this world would be very different.

alboa. On September 25, 1513, he was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its eastern shore. He was a stowawa

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