Also he was a member of the Senate and followed all debates relating to Belgium's trade and industry. ... The King entrusted Henry Stanley to establish A.I.A. posts in the Congo. ... He founded stations all along the river at Vivi, Isangila, Manyanga, Ntamo, and Mswata above Stanleypool. ... Boulger, an enthusiast of the King's policies wrote in his book The Congo State'; "owing to the initiative of King Leopold, a settled form of government existed in the Congo Basin before the Berlin Conference, which merely gave its official recognition to what ...

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The Council advised the King and watched over all colonial activities. 23. ... He asked King George II for a colony south of Carolina where the poor could start over. ... The new colony was named Georgia, in honor of the king. ... England's royal colonies were governed by a governor appointed from the King. ... In most respects, he had a king's powers. 31. ...

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. - that originally, all colonists were founded by the British, so were British citizens. The colonists who were fighting the British were actually rebels acting in disobedience and betraying the King of England. ... After all, his dad had taught him to be a good citizen, love the king, and respect authority. ... But he believed that the relationship between the king and colonies could and would be restored and that he was in a position of influence to help make that possible. ...

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Main reasons were: poverty and the conflicts between King and the Church. King Henry the eight wanted to marry Catherine of Aragon, but the Protestant church refused to give its permission for him to do so. ... People saw all of these things happen and they also saw a solution. ... One of the people who was looking for the solution to all of this inferno was Richard Hakluyt. ... First of all people would get more opportunities and might get back on their feet. 2. ...

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It is this one logic that makes all the gears revolve and govern this massive engine. ... It all started back in England and in 1578 Humphrey Gilbert, some guy, received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to colonize the "heathen and barbarous lands" in the New World which other European nations had not yet claimed. ... The King, Charles I, wanted the success and the wealth that the settlers had so he sent troops over to basically control everything and make a profit off the businesses. The King also made towns like Jamestown British colonies which were then taxed by England. ...

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They claimed all the land for Spain and the settlement were very soon established. Individual settlers for Spain received large areas of land and the right to control all of the labor of those who lived on the land. ... All the native people mined silver in the mountians, and often at the expense of thier own lives. ... The Portugese could now control all sea trade in the entire region. ... In 1682, an expedition was lead on the Mississippi all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico, with the French claiming all of land that was by the river for King Louis XIV, naming it Louisiana. ...

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However after all the plundering took place the Spaniards worked the Indians in the silver mines as slaves. ... For all they had came there was for riches so when the riches were gone what did they have left? ... In 1607, with the approval of their king, James I, they founded a settlement called Jamestown, England's first permanent colony. ... They brought with them all the necessary people to colonize North America. ... All three colonies, the Spanish; French; and English, were all set up primarily for the same reason to raise revenue for the throne back home. ...

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It is up to the reader to decide how each of these works are to be taken, and whether or not they will see the horror of it all. ... The last two lines, "Watch sloth and heathen folly/ Bring all your hope to nought." can also be read further into. ... About two thirds of all the best land in Africa is owned by European and American companies. ... Essays read in class such as Mark Twain's "Soliloquy of King Leopold" and the Diamond Wars essay also demonstrate this. ... In For All We Have and Are, for instance, the reader is convinced with the last two lines, "What stands if Freedom fall?...

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