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.

In the colonial period before 1776, and for some time after, often only adult white male property owners could vote ; enslaved Africans, most free black people and most women were not extended the franchise.

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.

Whereas up until this point the Dutch presence had been simply as traders, that was sometimes treaty-based, the Banda conquest marked the start of the first overt colonial rule in Indonesia albeit under the auspices of the VOC.

Urbanization during the colonial period was marked by forms of racial and social segregation — often expressed in terms of health and hygiene — which continue to structure the city today.

To the end he maintained the pretense of personal rule, but his reign was marked by ministerial instability while his " prestige was ruined by military failure and colonial losses ," concludes Lepage.

Roads, beyond just cattle paths and old Pequot trails, began to be forged through the receding wilderness ; colonial surveyors in 1753 marked out the future route of the Pawcatuck-Voluntown Road ( today known as Route 49 ).

Rupert's role in colonial commerce was marked by his being asked to lay the cornerstone of the new Royal Exchange in 1670, and being made one of its first councillors.

It marked the start of modern development policy ; whereas other colonial powers usually talked of a civilizing mission, which mainly involved spreading their culture to colonized peoples.

The Treaty signaled the end of the Spanish Empire in America and the Pacific Ocean ( see also the German – Spanish Treaty ( 1899 )), and marked the beginning of an age of United States colonial power.

The administrative structure of French colonial possessions in West Africa, while more homogeneous than neighboring British possessions, was marked by variety and flux.

However, British colonial expansion was, from the 1830s, marked by skirmishes and wars against both Boers and native African tribes for most of the remainder of the century.

< td > During Spanish colonial rule ( 1492 to 1898 )," Navidad " ( Christmas in English ), marked the Christian ecumenical celebration date of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.

His death in 1870 marked the end of the traditional era and the beginning of the modern colonial period.

This raid marked the beginning of the Portuguese Colonial War, the armed struggle between the Portuguese colonial authorities in the then Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique.

Java became the last major colonial possession in the East not under British control, and its fall marked the effective end of the war in these waters.

In 1803, under Fath Ali Shah, Qajars set out to fight against the Russian Empire, in what was known as Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813, due to concerns about the Russian expansion into Caucasus which was an Iranian domain, although some of the Khanates of the Caucasus were considered independent or semi-independent by the time of Russian expansion in 19th century, this period marked the first major economic and military encroachments on Iranian interests during the colonial era.

Although the revolution was brutally suppressed, it marked a great change in the colonial rule and policy.

Although the revolution was brutally suppressed, it marked a great change in the colonial rule and policy.

In addition, colonial governor William Denny of Pennsylvania agreed to negotiate directly with the Lenape-Delaware again without Iroquois intervention and marked the agreement by rekindling a " council fire.

The elephants ' happy acceptance of their new culture and roles in society stands in marked contrast to much of the actual French colonial experience.

The battle transformed British perspective as they realized their strength and potential to conquer smaller Indian kingdoms and marked the beginning of the imperial or colonial era.

In 1967 he returned to Lisbon, marked by the colonial reality and by the Portuguese Colonial War against the independence-seeking guerrilla movement of Mozambique, Frelimo.

Later, various constituent parts were separated by the French colonial authorities and subsequently rejoined again and the territory became known as French West Africa with stamps marked Afrique Occidentale Française.

The period of colonial expansion marked a rise in the status of Denmark and power unseen since the Viking Age.

Bukit Pasoh Road is located on a hill that in the 1830s marked the western boundary of the colonial town.

Mercado could reminisce about being a child when U. S. troops invaded Puerto Rico in 1898, and he clearly remembered the fighting that marked the end of Spain's colonial empire in the Americas.