Question

Answer all questions given under the heading

Congo

1. Who showed interest in Congo?
2. What was the monopoly trade given to this state?
3. How were these products collected?
4. What made the Belgian government intervene?

Answer 1

1. Leopold II the King of Belgium showed interest in Congo and so the Berlin conference agreed to the rule of Leopold in Congo's Free state.
2. This state was given a monopoly of the trade in ivory and rubber, the two most valuable products of the Congo.
3. These products were collected with harshness. Africans were subjected to forced labor.
4. The public outcry over the economic exploitation of Africans persuaded the Belgian Government of intervening. Congo passed from Leopold to Belgium.