Laos was also in their rule from 1893 to 1954.
World War II, the Japanese-Americans living in the country after Pearl Harbor. The Japanese-Americans on the West Coast (as far as I know) were sent to interment camps.
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They were self-governing, as Massachusetts didn't have religious tolerance for others, and financial security didn't come until later into settling. Rhode Island wasn't settled by puritans and had no dominating ethnic group or religion.
