The colonial period has generally left people believing that government can, if it wishes, provide all manner of services for them -- and that with independence free men do not have to work to realize the benefits of modern life.

He spoke of his desire to promote the abolition of slavery by peaceable means and he compared John Brown of Harper's Ferry to the John Brown of Rhode Island's colonial period.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

Several of the buildings on the Brown campus from its founding 18th century period through the 20th century offer fine representation of the Georgian style of American colonial era architecture.

In other cases, the new legislature felt it necessary to " dot i's and cross t's " by enacting an express reception statute, even if common law had been received during the colonial period.

Indian Law is largely based on English common law because of the long period of British colonial influence during the period of the British Raj.

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

Throughout the colonial period, large areas of Chad were never governed effectively: in the huge BET Prefecture, the handful of French military administrators usually left the people alone, and in central Chad, French rule was only slightly more substantive.

Cambodia's boundaries were for the most part based upon those recognized by France and by neighboring countries during the colonial period.

However, records from the colonial era indicate that Cayman Islands, then a dependency of Jamaica, was not tax-exempt during the period that followed.

He realized the importance of the Roman Catholic Church as a bastion of loyalty, legitimacy, social control, and stability, as had been the case in the colonial period.

These qualms exacerbated animosities toward Peru dating from the colonial period, now intensified by disputes over customs duties and loans.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

The number of Comorians living abroad has been estimated at between 80, 000 and 100, 000 ; during the colonial period, most of them lived in Tanzania, Madagascar, and other parts of East Africa.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

The European colonial period was the era from the 1500s to, arguably, the 1900s when several European powers ( particularly, but not exclusively, Spain, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands and France ) established colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Specifically, neocolonialism refers to the theory that former or existing economic relationships, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post – World War II period.

At the end of the colonial period, the number of enslaved people in Delaware began to decline.

The following table shows the names that were formerly used in French and Dutch for major cities, during the colonial period.

French was inherited from the colonial period and is the primary language of instruction.

The primary industry throughout the island's colonial period consisted of coconut plantations producing copra and / or coconut oil, until closure of the plantations and relocation of the inhabitants in October 1971.

This has led to such a close connection between Devanāgarī and Sanskrit that Devanāgarī is now widely thought to be the Sanskrit script ; however, before the colonial period there was no standard script for Sanskrit, which was written in whatever script was familiar to the local populace.

Guayaquil also became the largest shipbuilding center on the west coast of South America before the end of the colonial period.

He sometimes dated his letters 200 years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in U. S. colonial times, before the American Revolution ( a war which offended his Anglophilia ).

It focuses on the colonial era before 1947 and typically emphasizes caste and downplays class, to the annoyance of the Marxist school.

The BWPT was a colonial entity created in 1877, and governed by a single High Commissioner ) until 1971, only five years before its abolition.

* Kowloon Walled City-Kowloon, Hong Kong ( demolished before Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, ending the reason for Kowloon Walled City's existence, it was a small ungoverned land of Chinese territory embedded in British colonial territory )

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

Many languages around the world have no numerals above two to four — or at least did not before contact with the colonial societies — and speakers of these languages may have no tradition of using the numerals they did have for counting.

The prosperity enjoyed during the first two centuries ( 1540 – 1740 ) while contributing to colonial growth ; the placing of extensive regional judicial authority ( Real Audiencia ) as part of its jurisdiction ; and the pivotal role it played at the height of the Spanish Empire-the first modern global empire-helped define a distinctive sense of autonomy and of regional or national identity within Panama well before the rest of the colonies.

In August 1977, the Chairman of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico, Franklin Delano López, testified before the UN Decolonization Committee denouncing the colonial nature of the Commonwealth Status.

Puritans were politically important in England, but it is debated whether the movement was in any way a party with policies and leaders before the early 1640s ; and while Puritanism in New England was important culturally for a group of colonial pioneers in America, there have been many studies trying to pin down exactly what the identifiable cultural component was.

* September 25 – The only issue of Publick Occurrences is published in Boston, Massachusetts, before being suppressed by the colonial authorities.

The rule of traditional authorities was indeed integrated more than before in the colonial administration.

The policy had been established primarily for protection against Western imperialism, but before long Joseon was forced to open trade, beginning an era leading into Japanese colonial rule.

At the peace of Basel in 1795 the whole of the left bank of the Rhine was resigned to France which occupied the area before and established colonial government.

Historically, modern Ghanaian territory was the core of the Empire of Ashanti, which was one of the most advanced states in sub-Sahara Africa in the 18 – 19th centuries, before colonial rule.

There may be several false starts where nests are dug partway before being abandoned ; in solitary species this can give the impression of colonial living even when they are not.

The missionaries were summoned more than once before colonial government, but also had supporters.

Because Canada only officially became a country on July 1, 1867, it has been argued that literature written before this time was colonial.

After a few years, he left school with nothing more than a fourth grade English-language education and did odd jobs before being recruited to the army by a British colonial army officer.

Wanchese was used as a seasonal fishing village for 1500 years before English colonial settlement.

Shortly before independence was granted in 1979, a local competition was held to choose a new national flag, and a design based on the colonial coat of arms was submitted to the College of Arms.

He received a French colonial education before he began working as a clerk for the Vietnam Railway Company in Hanoi during the 1920s.