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Because there were usually few British regulars garrisoned in North America, colonial militia served a vital role in local conflicts, particularly in the French and Indian Wars.
Because of this and his earlier support for De Gaulle he became Governor General of the Afrique Equatoriale Française ( AEF ) in 1940, the first not white to achieve this position in French colonial history.
Because of the name he had made for himself in attacking the writs, he was elected to the Massachusetts colonial legislature and helped pass legislation requiring that special writs of assistance be “ granted by any judge or justice of the peace upon information under oath by any officer of the customs ” and barring all other writs.
Because of the generally low status of the Creole peoples in the eyes of prior European colonial powers, creole languages have generally been regarded as " degenerate " languages, or at best as rudimentary " dialects " of the politically dominant parent languages.
Because of its former colonial rule, Britain maintained a close and special relationship with Uganda.
Because of intermingling with Siraya people as well as Dutch colonial rule, the Hokkien dialects started to deviate from the original Hokkien spoken in mainland China.
Because Canada only officially became a country on July 1, 1867, it has been argued that literature written before this time was colonial.
Because of Essex County's rich history, which includes 17th century colonial history, maritime history spanning its existence, and leadership in the expansions of the textile industry in the 19th century, the entire county has been designated the Essex National Heritage Area by the National Park Service.
Because the Stamp Act was unpopular, a colonial jury was unlikely to convict a colonist of its violation.
Because of the town's abrupt decline and silting of the river, many archeological sites have been preserved, making it one of the richest areas for studying the mixed history of Native and colonial cultures, including that of enslaved Africans.
Because of competing national interest, nations had the desire for increased world power through their colonial empires.
Because of its potential wide application to the colonial economy, the Stamp Act was judged by the colonists to be a more dangerous assault on their rights than the Sugar Act was.
Because most Guamanians and Northern Mariana Islanders were also given Spanish surnames during Spanish colonial times, persons of white American and other non-Spanish European descent with Spanish surnames may be mistaken as having such descent.
Because of bankruptcy, ownership changed hands, and the news organization fell under tighter control of the Japanese to become one of the most influential organizations to collaborate with the colonial government.
Because a reliable census has not been taken in Burma since colonial times, the given figures are rough estimates.
Because Maryland was one of the few regions of the colonial United States that was predominantly Catholic, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to become the Diocese of Baltimore — the first diocese in the United States — on November 6, 1789.
Because of California's colonial Spanish roots, Mexican territorial history, and its original population consisting of Meso-Americans, Spanish colonizers and Mexican ranchers, Mexican and Spanish-origin cuisine is very influential and popular in California, particularly Southern California.
Because of Spanish colonial policy, which enforced a harsh penalty upon the written use of indigenous languages, the language can vary widely from village to village.
Because early Canada's role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade was so minor, the history of slavery in Canada is often overshadowed by the more tumultuous slavery practiced elsewhere in the Americas-most famously in the American South, and infamously in the colonial Caribbean.
Because of the widespread influence of Roman classical literature, the idea of the citizen / soldier / farmer also took root in colonial and early America.
Because of the different versions of stoolball, and because it was played not only in England, but also in colonial America, stoolball is considered by many to have been the basis of not only cricket, but both baseball and rounders as well.
Because the schools taught in Dutch, the Minahasans had an early advantage in the competition for government jobs and places in the colonial army.
Because of this, the British had difficulty in finding troops and as a result, many colonial soldiers enlisted.
Because of this, slavery in the early colonial period differed greatly in the American colonies from that in the Caribbean.

Because and settlers
Because there were few Catholic priests in the French Antilles, many of the earliest French settlers were Huguenots who sought greater religious freedom than what they could experience in mainland France.
Because policies were designed to benefit white settlers and the Portuguese homeland, little attention was paid to the integration of Mozambique's indigenous population, its economic infrastructure, or the skills of its indigenous rural population.
Because God sent lions among them to kill them, the king of the Assyrians sent one of the priests from Bethel to teach the new settlers about God's ordinances.
Because slavery was illegal in Mexico, these settlers made their slaves sign agreements giving them the status of indentured servants essentially slavery by another name.
Because of the vast distances involved, the first settlers were self-sufficient farmers.
Because of the ongoing hostilities with the Sioux and encroachment from American settlers to the south and east, the Pawnee decided to leave their Nebraska reservation in the 1870s and settle on a new reservation in Indian Territory, located in what is today Oklahoma.
Because of this, businesses and settlers began to abandon towns along the old route, and the town began a slow decline from which it ultimately never recovered.
Because the portion of land south of this crosstracks seemed to be best due to drainage, the new settlers began building there.
Because many of its early settlers came from Suffolk County in England, it is presumed that the name of the town derives from two small villages there — Great Wenham and Little Wenham.
Because of the peacefulness of the Potawatomi, they continued to co-exist with the settlers many years after the Treaty of Chicago until General Brady removed about 250 Indians of Hillsdale and Homer to Miami County, KS.
Because of the peacefulness of the Potawatomi, they continued to co-exist with the settlers for many years after the Removal Act, until the autumn of 1840 when General Hugh Brady removed about 250 Indians of Hillsdale County and Homer to Miami County, Kansas in reaction to homesteader complaints to the Van Buren Administration.
Because of confusion with another Huron River south of Detroit, on July 17, 1824, the Michigan Territorial Legislature renamed both the township and the river after DeWitt Clinton, the popular governor of New York from 1817 to 1823 who was largely responsible for building the Erie Canal which enabled many settlers to come to Michigan.
Because many of the early settlers were from Czechoslovakia, the city may also have been named for Brno, a village in the Czech Republic.
Because of the difficulty traversing the steep " Gardner's Mountain ", running north to south through the original Lyman grant of 1761, the settlers of the western portion had different priorities and needs than the rest of Lyman to the east.
Because some grantees failed to comply with the charter, Rumney was regranted to another group of settlers in 1767.
Because most of the original settlers were Jewish, Woodbine became known as " the first self-governing Jewish community since the fall of Jerusalem.
Because the settlers in the western part of the township were so far removed from the village of Woodbridge, they early developed a separate identity.
Because the first two decades of the 20th century were unusually wet, the new settlers reaped harvests of wheat on a scale " that promised to turn even owners of modest farms into wealthy men.
Because isolated Eastern Washington was an area of this Indian unrest during the early part of the territorial period, it was not until the late 1860s and early 1870s that settlers made homes in the area.
Because Huntington was populated largely by English settlers, unlike the rest of the New Amsterdam colony, the town voted in 1660 to become part of the Connecticut colony rather than remain under the authority of New Amsterdam.
Because the terrain was extremely rugged and lacked any major sources of wealth such as mineral riches, the area that is now Montenegro became a haven for residual groups of earlier settlers, including some tribes who had escaped Romanisation.
Because of its surname, his father's family appears to have been associated with French-descended settlers.
Because few American trappers and settlers were then in the contested Oregon Territory, his trail discovery was little used and nearly forgotten.
Because of unsettled conflicts with settlers encroaching into the Mohawk Valley and outstanding treaty obligations to the British Crown, Mohawks fought against the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

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