America's imperialist tendencies already were manifested in the subjugation of various Native American tribes and a key piece of legislation that would help determine US foreign policy for years to come and have repercussions to this day. ... When Moses died, his son Steven Austin took over the project, and brought over 2000 new immigrants, called empresarios, to settle in the colony. ... When Costa Rica declared war on Nicaragua, Walker found that much of the native population had rebelled to join the Costa Ricans and suddenly found him outnumbered. In a second Battle of Rivas, Costa Ric...

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For these reasons, the 1863 New Zealand Settlement Act, and soon afterward, the Native Land Courts were established, both of which ignored Maori rights. This deeply upset the Tuhoe tribe who had fought tirelessly to put an end to the land confiscations and surveying as brought about by the Native Land Court. ... The Native Land Courts and land confiscations, and more importantly the Urewera 1896 Act were major sources of grievance to Rua and the rest of the Tuhoe tribe, and thus a significant factor of Rua's resistance during the First World War. The First World War gave Rua the platfor...

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Under the guidance of Norodom Sihanouk, the head of the country during the decade, the number of public schools nearly doubled.15 Sihanouk also established compulsory education for children and universities for native Cambodians. ... My sons had a green thumb, so the Khmer Rouge told them to plant rice," instead of attend school. 19 Chanrinthy Him, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge, wrote after the genocide that "it [had] been six years since I attended formal school. ...

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As the son of Emperor Taisho and Crown Prince, Hirohito found comforts in the studies of science, mathematics, ethics, geography, and literature often studying in his native Japanese as well as Chinese. ... Reports surfaced that his son, Chang Hsueh-Liang, had attempted to arise anti-Japanese sentiment throughout Manchuria and Japanese military forces saw an opportunity. ...

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