https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0 Made with ♥ en-us 2019-01-23 20:04:55 UTC 2019-01-25 20:33:35 UTC hello@padlet.com nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323669977 The perpetrators of the genocide were king Leopold and the force Publique. and the victims were the people of Congo ]]> 2019-01-23 20:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323669977 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323671854 The genocide started in 1880 and went to 1908. The genocide happened  because the Congo was one of the largest sources of wild rubber in the world and there was a need for rubber. The genocide was in the Congo. ]]> 2019-01-23 20:14:02 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323671854 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323675666 According to Britannica encyclopedia" women and children were held captive and with out food by the force publique so the men would come back with rubber." Women and children were captured and given no food until the men came back with enough rubber to fill the rubber quota, many women and children died because of starvation. ]]> 2019-01-23 20:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323675666 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323681974 ABC Clio States" Begin officers were afraid the force Publique would waist bullets so for every bullet they demanded a human hand for each bullet their soldiers used as proof that the killings had been done."  Belgian officers didn't want any bullets to be wasted  so if they used a bullet they had to show a hand. 

]]> 2019-01-23 20:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/323681974 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324141918 Failure to meet Leopold’s rubber quota was punishable by death, the Force Publique was African people that worked for Leopold. During this time  ruffly  5.4 million people died. Many people died because they didn't get all the rubber they needed to get.]]> 2019-01-24 20:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324141918 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324145080 In the United States, the 1890s were marked by a severe economic depression , as well as several strikes in the industrial workforce.     

The united states was not involved in the genocide. ]]> 2019-01-24 20:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324145080 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324498290 2019-01-25 20:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324498290 nathaniel_williams https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324498632 2019-01-25 20:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/nathaniel_williams/whrzkho64js0/wish/324498632