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<br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />'• <br />33 <br />Table 10 Southern Colorado Historical Chronology <br />Period Subperiod Date Major Events <br />American VIII 1946-present Post-World War II <br /> VII 1941-1945 World Waz II <br /> VI 1930-1940 Great Depression <br /> V 1916-1918 World War I <br /> Stock Raising Act (1916) <br /> IV 1900s-1910s Enlazged Homestead Act (1908 <br /> III 1870s-1890s Silver Crash (1892) <br /> Colorado Statehood (1876) <br /> II 1860s Homestead Ac[ (I$62) <br /> Civil War (1861-1865) <br /> I 1850s Colorado Gold Rush (1859) <br /> Gadsden Purchase (1854) <br /> San Luis established (1851) <br />Mexican 1821-1848 Mexican War (1846-1848) <br /> Bent's Fort (1830s) <br /> Santa Fe Trail (1821) <br /> Mexican Independence (1821) <br />Spanish 1598-1821 Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) <br /> Comanche Treaty (1786) <br /> de Anza defeats Cuemo Verde (1779) <br /> Pueblo Revolt (1680) <br /> San Gabriel (NM) founded (1598) <br />The period of the Mexican Waz in the mid-to-late 1840s represents a dazk period in Mexican <br />history. Until recently, the important and relevant borderlands area, involved in the centuries-old <br />conflict, had been largely neglected. The Mexican period corresponded to, and was extensively <br />integrated with, changes occurring in the United States. Mexican political independence in 182] was <br />tied directly with the opening of the Santa Fe Trail. Manifest Destiny--the political expansionist <br />policy that pervaded the American political scene--culminated in the Mexican Waz in 1846 and <br />resulted in Mexico losing half of its norihem territory. This period in borderlands history has been <br />characterized as "the dark age in the historiography of the Southwest..." (Weber 1982:xii). <br />