They set up a society to encourage people to move there so they could vote against allowing slavery.
In 1990, Irag launched an invasion on the country of Kuwait.
Because Quakers wanted a free land so they established Pennsylvania
Basically, big countries started rapidly industrializing and since they needed resources such as coal and oil and money they needed then to conquer other countries and take it from them. This led to imperialism where European countries would colonize Africa, for example, and take their natural resources back to the European country so that they could process it and develop more.
