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What led to heightened tensions in New Mexico between Spanish missionaries, encomenderos, and the Pueblo Indians in the 1670s

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The answer is that Pueblo Indians decided to remove Catholic presence and return to their traditional religious rituals. Their uprising which was known as Popé's Rebellion destroyed churches, killed over 400 Spaniards and drove European settlers fleeing to Mexico.

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