This is an opinion question, but I believe that it is possible to seize political control over a country without oppressing the country's people. However, history has shown otherwise (Nazi Germany, British Empire) but we can use past mistakes to improve our future world.
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With the gold rush lots of people moved to California with so many people in California the question of California becoming a stage came up. So the many wondered was California going to be a slave state or a free state. If California became a free or slave state there would be a imbalance in power between the two factions.
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The major similarity between French and Spanish colonies in the Americas is that both were what one textbook I teach from calls "frontiers of inclusion." In both of these countries' colonies, Native Americans were made an integral part of society.
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Thomas Jefferson called his election "the Revolution of 1800" because it marked the first time that power in America passed from one party to another.
He promised to govern as he felt the Founders intended, based on decentralized government and trust in the people to make the right decisions for themselves. Basically, the observers have regarded Jefferson's election in 1800 as revolutionary. This may be true in a restrained sense of the word, since the change from Federalist leadership to Republican was entirely legal and bloodless.