colonization

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In 1823, President James Monroe declared the Western Hemisphere off limits to European colonization.

From The Wall Street Journal

Three centuries of Danish colonization has spurred a range of resentments between the island’s Inuit residents and faraway Copenhagen.

From The Wall Street Journal

But for Caleb Scharf, an astrobiologist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a future of space colonization is written in the stars.

From The Wall Street Journal

Portuguese colonization beginning in 1500, the forced migration of roughly 4 million enslaved Africans, and later waves of European and Japanese immigration produced what the authors describe as the richest genetic diversity in the world.

From Science Daily

When Monroe declared the Americas off limits to “future colonization by any European powers,” the U.S. didn’t really have the means or motive to meddle abroad.

From The Wall Street Journal