Settler colonialism
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Settler colonialism is a process by which settlers exercise colonial rule over a land and its indigenous peoples, transforming the land and replacing or assimilating its population with or into the so
American Progress (1872) by John Gast. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading civilization westward with American settlers, while Native Americans are displaced from their ancestral homeland on the left.
Decolonization
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Decolonization is the ending of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. The meanings and applications of the term
The Chilean Declaration of Independence on 18 February 1818
Prince Pedro proclaims himself Emperor of an independent Brazil on 7 September 1822.
Members of the Irish delegation for the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations in December 1921
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781