colonial government
Occupying power's rule
Colonial government is administration of a territory by a foreign power.
The colonizing nation typically installs its own officials, laws, and institutions to govern the local population: Under colonial government, indigenous peoples had limited political rights.
The term often carries negative connotations of exploitation and imposed rule.
India was under British colonial government until 1947.
- revoltsViolent political uprisings
- viceroyRoyal colonial governor
- assimilation policiesForced adoption of dominant culture
- color barCalibration reference graphic
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
liberation movements · penal code · martial law · plantation economy · missionary activity · taxation · magistrate · divide and rule · imperial decree · charter · religious conversion · bureaucracy · labor exploitation · land grants · enforcement agencies · uprisings · economic dependency · property rights
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- Canadian HistoryConfederation, Rupert's Land, constitutional debates, constitutional reform, Tories
- Quebec HistoryNew France, Quebec, Champlain, Samuel de Champlain, Jacques Cartier
colonial governmentself-government
Ruling oneself independently
self-rule · self-determination · independence · self-governance · sovereign state
colonial governmentindependence
Freedom from external control
self-determination · autonomy · freedom · liberation · emancipation
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