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66 Countries That Were Once British Colonies
One of the most distant British colonies, Australia is both a country and a continent. Due to its isolation from the rest of ...
The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved
Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...
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Map: The British Colonies
From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 45,000 Africans are transported annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming ...
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Colonial laws
The shift from indentured servitude to racial slavery in the British colonies is evident in the development of the colonies' laws. • Virginia, 1639: The first law to exclude "Negroes" from ...
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The British Empire: An overview
This allowed British control to continue and prevented most Black people from voting. The 1830s had seen a push for colonial emigration to Australia ... The first successful colony was set ...
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Monuments in Australia Are Vandalized to Protest National Day
The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was a fresh sign that Australia Day, which commemorates when a British fleet sailed into Sydney Harbor to start a penal colony in the late 18th ...
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Australia is removing British monarchy from its bank notes
Like many former British colonies, Australia is debating to what extent ... The bank said the move would honor “the culture and history of the First Australians.” “The other side of the ...