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  1. What years did King Leopold II rule the Congo free state?

1885-1908

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  1. What were the main resources they wanted out of the Congolese population?

ivory and rubber 

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  1. What were the names of the journalist and explorers that the King found? and why?

1878- Henry Morton Stanley

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  1. When did Belgium experience industrial development? 



Leopold's reign 

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How did they have to harvest rubber? 



slashing the vines and in turn getting it all over themselves, then scraping the rubber off their bodies and into buckets.

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When did Stanley return and with what?

1882- he returned with over 500 signed treaties from chiefs.

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  1. When was the geographical conference in Brussels organized and why?



1876- so his operations would be legitimized. 

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What inhumane acts were committed to the Congolese people?

Hands were being cut off, people were being shot, and people were being beaten.

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What years did the king borrow money from the government?

1889-1895

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  1. What was the ‘Scramble of Africa’? 



It was when many people tried to claim pieces of land. 

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When did the Congo become a Belgian colony?

November 15th 1908
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How many people died? (Approximately)

10 million