https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq Use your own words to answer the questions in the padlet en-us 2020-10-15 11:19:53 UTC 2022-11-30 19:15:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404080751 1888, 1900, 1891, 1902, 1908, 1960.]]> 2022-11-30 19:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404080751 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404081233  -King Leopold took on the title of “King-Sovereign of the Congo Free State.”
-The government also began looking for other ways to make money. Leopold made it so the Congolese people could only sell their products (mostly ivory and rubber) to the state. Companies, controlled by Leopold, were allowed to detain Africans who did not work hard enough.
-In 1908, the Belgian government took over the Congo Free State, taking power away from Leopold. Through the 1960s, the Belgians maintained economic and political control in the region as Africans continued to provide labor with minimal profit for themselves. In an attempt to reconstruct Congolese society, the Belgians tried to restore power to traditional chiefs, but most of the old chiefs were dead and their system of power was destroyed.

]]> 2022-11-30 19:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404081233 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082209 In 1891, Western nations learned about Leopold's cruelty in the Congo and demanded that King Leopold II answer for what he'd done.]]> 2022-11-30 19:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082209 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082595 Groups that were important in this reading were the tribes that were based in Congo. These tribes were affected greatly by King Leopolds actions and were forced into labor because of him. This lead to a massive decrease in their population and a massive decrease in quality of life.]]> 2022-11-30 19:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082595 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082683 The Budja Tribe successfully revolted against the Europeans but were later killed by the European military. Other Africans resorted to flight because of this. ]]> 2022-11-30 19:06:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082683 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082934 2022-11-30 19:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404082934 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404083292 "The local traders responded with force. They raided and burned Free State trading posts."

]]> 2022-11-30 19:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404083292 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404083485 King Leopold was a terrible person but he was a big part of why the tribes were suffering. King Leopold and his soldiers forced any of the native people to collect rubber for them, and if they did not come back with enough rubber they would get their hands cut off or have another atrocity committed against them. ]]> 2022-11-30 19:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404083485 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404083905 In 1888 the force publique came out. The British parliament began to check what the king was doing/his methods in 1903. In 1891 they heard reports of the crimes the king was committing. The Belgians gained control in the 1960s.]]> 2022-11-30 19:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404083905 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404084247 The berlin conference took place in belgium and they planned to take control of congo and other countries in africa but mostly congo.]]> 2022-11-30 19:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404084247 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404084871 The political effect of all of this could be that the congo government was taken over by Belgium, and a social effect could be that the king tried to tell them that they had to change their culture and change the way that they spoke. It shows an economic effect because he got lots and lots of money from enslaving the people of congo and torturing them and killing them because there was lots of rubber from trees.]]> 2022-11-30 19:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404084871 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404084890 One way that the Congolese resisted was by not gathering and bringing back resources such as rubber, but when they didn't they were whipped to death. This also happened when they didn't bring back enough resources]]> 2022-11-30 19:08:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404084890 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404085241 King Leopold took complete control over Congo, and exploited the people living there, and it's natural resources to get Belgium wealthy. He tried to educate the people of Congo, but in doing so ignored the history and culture of their past, and basically erased most of it.]]> 2022-11-30 19:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404085241 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404085299 2022-11-30 19:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404085299 https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404087521 2022-11-30 19:10:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sarahwalczak/yh97fxe6wzumabeq/wish/2404087521