HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the gathering of industrialist workers to protest low wages.
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the gathering of the leaders of Europe to draw the land boundaries and set rules in claiming parts of Africa.
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a group of industrialist owners setting new working conditions.
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a meeting between the Chancellor of Germany and the President of the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The General Act established 7 major terms: ending slavery; recognizing King Leopold’s Congo claim; free trade in Niger and Congo basins; freedom of navigation on Congo and Niger rivers; Principle of Effective Occupation; spheres of influence; and that new European land claimants had to notify the 13 other countries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rivalry between Great Britain and France led Bismarck to intervene, and in late 1884 he called a meeting of European powers in Berlin. In the subsequent meetings, Great Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and King Leopold II negotiated their claims to African territory, which were then formalized and mapped.
Detailed explanation-3: -Purpose of the Berlin Conference What ultimately resulted was a hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that divided Africa into 50 irregular countries. This new map of the continent was superimposed over 1, 000 indigenous cultures and regions of Africa.
Detailed explanation-4: -It established the rules for the conquest and partition of Africa, in the process legitimising the ideas of Africa as a playground for outsiders, its mineral wealth as a resource for the outside world not for Africans and its fate as a matter not to be left to Africans.