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Example sentences for "colonization"

Lexicographically close words:
colonise; colonised; colonising; colonist; colonists; colonizationists; colonizations; colonize; colonized; colonizer
  1. He said the idea of Zionism, or, rather, the colonization of oppressed Jews, had been developing in his mind for ten or twelve years.

  2. Mesopotamia, as a place for colonization of Jews, 157.

  3. Mr. Underwood, of Kentucky, called up the bill for the relief of the American Colonization Society.

  4. The slaves that were recaptured on the barque Pons were turned over to the Colonization Society, by the authority of the United States, sent to Liberia, and there kept at the expense of the society for one or two years.

  5. The board of managers of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society took note of the same, May, 1862.

  6. Hezekiah Niles, the great compiler, said he had thought on colonization from his youth up.

  7. Some gave to aid the school as an auxiliary to the colonization effort, who would not have given, had not that view been presented.

  8. He is no more, and the noblest eulogy that could be pronounced on him would be to inscribe upon his tomb, the merited epitaph, 'Here lies the projector of the American Colonization Society.

  9. The first general conference that the colonization workers had in Washington was in the nature of a "prayer meeting"[268] held in the home of Elias B.

  10. Finley held that colonization would gradually reduce slavery, because provision being made for the emancipated slaves, masters would manumit them.

  11. With all this, however, Randolph claimed the colonization movement had nothing to do with abolition.

  12. A great scheme for colonization was made and people from the southern part of the province were sent north to occupy the land.

  13. Her destiny is to plant out nations, and the spirit of colonization is the genius that presides over her career.

  14. It may even be said that it has decided the first colonization in the New Continent, and the original of the Roman and Germanic races of men.

  15. Nérestan, shaking me cordially by the hand; "and I will begin at once by telling you that the best system of colonization that I know of, I found in a book printed in Canada which accidentally fell into my hands.

  16. As the conversion of the native tribes was ever one of the leading features in the policy of Catholic statesmen in the colonization of this continent, it was determined to renew the missions which we have seen interrupted.

  17. April 16th, it was approved by the President, who sent a Message expressing gratification that “the two principles of compensation and colonization are both recognized and practically applied in the Act.

  18. It will be remembered that the Mosquito king's grant to the Shepards had been transferred to a colonization company in the United States; upon the strength of which Henry L.

  19. The grantees, Peter and Samuel Shepard, transferred the grant to the Central American Colonization Company, an American Association.

  20. They altogether exterminated the Eries, and in their very wickedness, did good in rendering their country more susceptible to colonization by Europeans.

  21. He set sail for Liberia in 1834, after having completed his medical studies, which he had pursued under the direction of the American Colonization Society for a number of years.

  22. President Fillmore in his last message to Congress proposed a plan for Negro colonization and advocated its adoption.

  23. President Buchanan made arrangements with the American Colonization Society for the transportation of a number of slaves captured on the slaver, Echo, in 1858.

  24. The failure of this project did not dim the vision of the successful colonization of the freed slaves in the mind of President Lincoln.

  25. The Colonization Society, therefore, sought to colonize the freedmen on the west coast of Africa, thus definitely removing the problem which was of such concern to the planters in slaveholding States.

  26. The colonization question was before the society in its early period.

  27. Says he: "Applications have been made to me by many free Americans of African descent to favor their emigration, with a view to such colonization as was contemplated in recent acts of Congress.

  28. Branches of the Colonization Society were organized in many States and a large membership was secured throughout the country.

  29. The quotation here noted is taken from a speech by Henry Clay before the American Colonization Society, 1827.

  30. Throughout his political career Lincoln persisted in believing in the colonization of the Negro.

  31. Are these members of that colonization council in communication as to the condition of your race, and as to the best thing to be done to alleviate their troubles?

  32. Membership in the council was solicited with the result that by 1878 there were ninety-eight thousand persons from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Texas belonging to the colonization council and ready to move.

  33. Henry Adams of Shreveport, Louisiana, an uneducated negro but a man of extraordinary talent, organized that year a colonization council.

  34. Richelieu for the colonization of the island.

  35. The panels of wainscoting upon the walls were hung with paintings of historic interest--portraits of the Kings, Governors, Intendants and Ministers of State, who had been instrumental in the colonization of New France.

  36. It was, however, not at Buenos Aires, but in the Santa Fe province, that modern agricultural colonization began in the nineteenth century.

  37. Colonization has been, on the whole, a private affair.

  38. Colonization began beyond the Lumbrera in the eighteenth century by passing round it, from south to north, by the valleys of the Juramento and the San Francisco (which joins the Bermejo).

  39. It is especially important in the districts where colonization is already old, as in the Fuegian and Neuquen regions.

  40. Colonization is even older here than in the Chaco Salteno.

  41. Agricultural colonization in turn will react upon the forestry industry in developing the cultivation of mate.

  42. The line marking the frontier of 1875 shows the speed at which colonization has developed in the western half of the plain of the Pampas.

  43. Colonization does more than emphasize the individuality of each of the natural regions.

  44. These plans, still far from realization, do not deprive the Ramos Mejia lines of their character as colonization lines, entirely devoted at present to conveying the timber of the Chaco and the wool of Patagonia.

  45. Lastly, colonization can make no progress unless it finds markets on which it can put its produce.

  46. Sometimes it was undertaken by Colonization Companies, which bought land to divide and sell.

  47. It seems, moreover, that the development of colonization depends not only upon physical conditions, but upon factors of a purely economic or social character, which the geographer must not overlook.

  48. The part that the railway has played in colonization is plainly seen in the present completion of the system which has developed freely on the even surface of the Pampean plain.

  49. The Colonization and Abolition Societies, with other associations--the exfoliations of Antichrist--had evidently gained an ascendency in the affections of many of the members.

  50. It was lucky that the Colonization Board worked on two levels.

  51. The young man from the Colonization Board turned to Suzanne.

  52. The number of men applying to the Colonization Board for emigration to the colony planets is falling off.

  53. You know how the Colonization Board works.

  54. I and the other gentlemen here represent the Colonization Board.

  55. But aware of the objections which must arise to the setting free of four millions of slaves and their remaining in the country, he proposes that a system of colonization shall be inaugurated by which they may be removed.

  56. Emancipation with colonization in lands provided for the freed slaves, is the scheme.

  57. However any one may deem the colonization of the whole colored race desirable, still it will remain an impossibility; there are natural and economic forces which would be omnipotent to prevent it.

  58. Without volunteering the details of that argument, which, indeed, we do not profess to see clearly, we may say that there is at least a preliminary question, whether or not that end cannot be better attained without colonization than with it?

  59. But passing this, is the colonization of the colored race in this country desirable or necessary?

  60. By colonization we mean, of course, the removal or deportation of the blocks to another country.

  61. If it be answered, the colonization is to be voluntary, they only going who choose to go, we have only to say that that is not the true meaning of the terms, nor what is by common consent understood by it.

  62. It was obvious that colonization would be the shortest road to renationalization.

  63. Many of them even hindered the colonization movement, because, if allowed to mature, it would deprive them of their income.

  64. Very soon Nicholas became suspicious of his Siberian colonization scheme, that it was in reality a philanthropic measure, and in place of saving the Jew's soul it only promoted his physical well-being.

  65. We rather expected the Flying U to fight this colonization scheme, so we are neither surprised nor unprepared.

  66. You see, there is a certain per cent of--let us call it waste effort--in this colonization business.

  67. At a recent annual meeting of the American Colonization Society, the Rev.

  68. Madison was much interested in the Colonization Society.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colonization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.