... scattered on hillside above Semliki valley were forced to move to more centralised assessable villages for easier administration. A large proportion of the population subsequently died of sleeping sickness. Because the country was under private control meant those with power were not bound by any responsibility to any ... In control was a form of corporate government, made up of an interlocked web of corporations. They had the power to exploit the African population more drastically than elsewhere in Africa. Despite the decrees of the Berlin Act no attempt was made to help the Congolese ...

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... a regime as cruel as the 19th century had seen. The feelings of many were portrayed in the literature of the time. The early 20th century American poet Vachel Lindsay wrote; Listen to the yell of Leopolds ghost, burning in hell for his hand maimed host, hear how the demons chuckle and ... out to profit his country. Under the terms of the General Act of Berlin Leopold agreed to suppress slavery, to educate and preserve the indigenous population and to encourage philanthropic and scientific enterprises. Despite these agreements Leopold divided his colony into two trade zones which he contr...

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... the colonisation of Australia as the setting up colonies were expensive and were to be reviewed carefully by the government in consideration. With the American Revolution in mind, many saw colonies to bring in no profit while they were struggling, and when they became prosperous they rebelled. The ... . Perhaps the most obvious reason for the colonisation of Australia was the bursting prisons. This problem was solved before by transporting the prisoners to American Colonies for cheap labour. However, in 1776, the Americans revolted and refused to take any more convicts. This created a bot...

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... in North America and the West Indies. In other words: this is where it all began!  After these first expeditions came more and more. By 1670, there were British American colonies in New England, Virginia, and Maryland. But this was not all! There were also settlements in the Bermudas, Honduras, Antigua, Barbados, and Nova Scotia. More conquests followed. Jamaica was ... the French and the rulers of Bengal, in the 1750's, provided the British with a massive increase of territory and ensured their future supremacy in India. The loss of Britain's thirteen American colonies between 1776 ...

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... religious education. There were labor gangs that were organized in villages that got education on religion as a reward. The religious persecution that drove settlers From Europe to the British North American colonies sprang from the conviction, held by Protestants and Catholics. Some settlers who arrived in these areas such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland came for secular motives, they needed ... wanted to be apart of them. They wanted to start to new life in the New World. This complication in Europe dealing with the religious persecution caused a rise in the population in the...

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... colonies are different because of the agriculture, the economy, the religion, the land, and slavery. In the end, most of these things brought the colonies together, and eventually toward the American Revolution. The Northern Colonies were mainly based on religion. When settlers came over, they also brought with them their constant religious faith. They could come together for church; they felt ... less than in the south, and more than in New England. They were very civilized; they used fertilizer and created irrigation systems that were brought over by the Germans. The population was ve...

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