colonization
noun
the act, on the part of a nation or government, of claiming and forcibly taking control of territory other than its own, usually sending or allowing its own people to settle there.
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He seems to be under an excitement produced by the publication of our anti-colonization resolutions.
From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison