Taos Rebellion
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: New Mexico
- Date: January 19, 1847
Article abstract: Resistance by Hispanics and Indians in New Mexico leads to the first revolt against new U.S. authority.
In the twenty years prior to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the northern borderlands frontier of Mexico had undergone profound changes. A breakdown in relations with Native Americans, particularly the Apaches and the Comanches, resulted in such an increase in Native American raids that whole sections of the frontier were depopulated of settlers. Unable to institute effective pacification measures, the national...
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