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The point is that, settlers or colonists , they had come to occupy land and through occupation to utilize it.
The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.
The American Revolution, most scholars now agree, was itself an outgrowth of conspiracism: The colonists rebelled because they imagined a systematic plot by the monarchy to deprive them of their liberties.
Here on 16 December, 1773, 5,000 colonists came to protest the tea tax.
King James added the name of Bermuda to the original Virginia Company Charter, and in the spring of 1612 more than 50 colonists were sent out on the Plough to join three pioneers who had volunteered to hold the fort.