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  • Native American Land Cessions 1783–1814

    Native American Land Cessions 1783–1814

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    Native American Land Cessions 1783–1814

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    Between 1783–90, the US government ended the colonial practice of negotiating treaties with the Indians to acquire their land, instead they simply occupied Native American lands and any resistance was met by military force. In 1790, the federal government, alarmed by the violent opposition to their land grabs, revived the... More
  • Native American Resistance 1785–1842

    Native American Resistance 1785–1842

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    Native American Resistance 1785–1842

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    Having been ceded western territory under the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the newly independent America doubled in size. It established settlements east of the Mississippi, south of the Great Lakes and into the Gulf coastal plains. This generated competition for land, much of it Native American, and ensured continuing... More
  • New Netherland 1614–64

    New Netherland 1614–64

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    New Netherland 1614–64

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    After the English explorer Henry Hudson discovered the river that bears his name in 1609, the Dutch followed up on his favourable reports with surveying expeditions of the adjacent coastline. The colony of New Netherland’s primary economic purpose was fur-trading, and its first permanent establishment, Fort Nassau, was well upriver... More
  • Northeast Africa 1840–98

    Northeast Africa 1840–98

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    Northeast Africa 1840–98

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    In the early 19th century, Northeast Africa largely comprised a motley and shifting hotchpotch of sultanates loosely within the sphere of influence of the decaying Ottoman Empire. The khedives (‘viceroys’) of Egypt were virtually autonomous, and territorially acquisitive, annexing Equatoria and Darfur. The opening of the Suez Canal changed the... More
  • Northern Colonies c. 1664

    Northern Colonies c. 1664

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    Northern Colonies c. 1664

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    An important catalyst in the early colonization process was the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s inflexibility over matters of religious observance. Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut colony in 1636, Roger Williams (Rhode Island 1636) and John Wheelwright (New Hampshire 1638, then Wells, Maine) all left (or were banished) in order to enjoy... More
  • Pledges and Border Changes 1920–1923

    Pledges and Border Changes 1920–1923

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    Pledges and Border Changes 1920–1923

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    Carved out of Ottoman Syria in 1920, the Transjordan territory was land placed under the British protectorate as part of the Palestine Mandate. In return, the French controlled Syria and Lebanon. The British had made a promise, endorsed by the US and the principal Allied Powers in World War I,... More
  • Plymouth Colony 1620–91

    Plymouth Colony 1620–91

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    Plymouth Colony 1620–91

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    After Jamestown in Virginia, Plymouth was the second successful American colony to be founded by English settlers, a group of dissident Calvinist Christian ‘pilgrims’ who wanted to create a religious community free from the yoke of the English church. The community emigrated to Leiden in Holland, but began negotiating with... More
  • Province of Georgia 1732–77

    Province of Georgia 1732–77

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    Province of Georgia 1732–77

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    In 1732 a group of English ‘worthy poor’ settlers led by English philanthropist and member of Parliament James Oglethorpe, landed at Savannah and began establishing a chartered colony named ‘Georgia’ after George II. Its constitution was progressive and egalitarian, with land-ownership limited to 50 acres. Initially, slavery was banned, although... More
  • Province of New York 1664–1783

    Province of New York 1664–1783

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    Province of New York 1664–1783

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    After the English victory in the First Anglo-Dutch war (1652–54), the Dutch ‘New Netherland’ colony came into English possession in 1664, when Charles II appointed his brother James, Duke of York, to take the Dutch governor’s surrender. When James II ascended to the English throne in 1688, the Province of... More
  • Roman Britain 200 CE

    Roman Britain 200 CE

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    Roman Britain 200 CE

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    The Roman conquest of Britain reached its high watermark with victory over the Picts at Mons Graupius (84), thought to be somewhere near Aberdeen. Thereafter the northern border would be marked first by Hadrian’s Wall (121–22) then the Antonine Wall (142–44). The Brigantes of northern England would rebel, and the... More
  • South Africa 1750

    South Africa 1750

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    South Africa 1750

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    In the second half of the 17th century, the Dutch East India Company supported the development of its South African colony with the importation of slaves from Angola and Guinea. In 1700 the company permitted grazing cattle outside the settlement, which led to growth of the itinerant farmer, or Trekboer,... More
  • South Africa 1798–1857

    South Africa 1798–1857

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    South Africa 1798–1857

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    The Cape switched between Dutch and British hands during the Napoleonic Wars until 1815, when British occupation was confirmed by the Congress of Vienna. The already pronounced unruliness and wanderlust of the Dutch colonists was aggravated by the outlawing of the Dutch language (1806), and abolition of slavery (1838), on... More