4 sentences with “southwestern”

The southwestern part of the present-day United States was inhabited by several groups we collectively call the Pueblo people.

Between 1540 and 1542, Coronado led a large expedition of Spaniards and native allies to the lands north of Mexico City, and over the next few years, they explored the area that is now the southwestern United States.

Santa Anna reluctantly signed a peace treaty and was sent to Washington, where he met with President Andrew Jackson and, under pressure, agreed to recognize an independent Texas with the Rio Grande as its southwestern border.

Similarly, a large region of southwestern France, Aquitaine, was formally owned by the English royal line, with the awkward caveat that while a given English king could be sovereign in England, his lordship of Aquitaine technically made him a vassal of whoever the French king was.