COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Life got much better for native Africans.
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Life got much worse for native Africans.
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The government tried to aid the inhabitants by improving health and education and building an infrastructure. The Belgians still exploited the region’s gold, copper, and diamonds.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Finally, indignation among people in Britain and other parts of Europe grew so great that Leopold was forced to transfer his authority in the Congo to the Belgian government. In 1908 the Congo Free State was abolished and replaced by the Belgian Congo, a colony controlled by the Belgian parliament.
Detailed explanation-2: -The state included the entire area of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo and existed from 1885 to 1908, when the Belgian Federal Parliament reluctantly annexed the state as a colony belonging to Belgium after international pressure.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under pressure from Britain and the United States, Leopold turned over ownership of the Congo Free State to the Belgian government in 1908.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Free State’s military force, the Force Publique, enforced the labour policies. Individual workers who refused to participate in rubber collection could be killed and entire villages razed.