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Pursue the free trade policy and expand the colony on a large scale.

Colonial expansion in the period of industrial capital After the rise of the British industrial revolution, the government representing the interests of the industrial bourgeoisie pursued a free trade policy and began the period when industrial capital plundered the colonies.

18 13, the trade monopoly right of the East India Company was revoked, and a large number of British machine-made textiles flooded into India, destroying the local traditional cotton textile industry.

Colonial expansion in the period of financial capital after 65438+1970s, due to the unbalanced political and economic development of capitalist countries, Britain gradually lost its monopoly position in the industrial world, but its capital export and colonial expansion remained ahead.

Africa is the last continent carved up by imperialism. Britain obtained the most valuable part, 1868 and 1885, and Basutoland and Bettina were successively classified as protected territories.

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During the period from 1825 to 1875, except for Britain and France, the activities of European countries to conquer new colonies basically stopped, and instead, they moved to overseas colonies.

As far as the British situation is concerned, a sentence by British Prime Minister disraeli in 1852 can be said to be the best summary of Britain's attitude towards colonies in this period: "Colonies are a heavy millstone hanging around our necks".

Take Gambia and Gold Coast as two small British colonies, for example, the business tax revenue is far behind the administrative expenses. On several occasions, the British Parliament suggested reducing the size of the colonies or giving them up completely. It was only because the Royal Navy West Africa Sub-fleet needed to set up a naval base in the Gulf of Guinea to ban the slave trade that Britain finally retained these two areas.

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