<span> The Congo was run essentially as a personal fiefdom by the Belgian King Leopold I, who used a great deal of brutality in an effort to essentially extract as much wealth as possible, primarily in the form of rubber, from the colony. Coercive tactics such as mutilation and execution were commonly used in order to ensure compliance. </span>
<span>A. They both attempted to preserve the
Union. Both compromise sought to satisfy both pro-slavery and anti-slavery
factions in government. Both sought to find ways to ensure that there was a
balance between the two sides. The
Kansas-Nebraska Act however, destroyed that balance and later led to Civil War.</span>
Following the Pullman strike companies appealing to the courts to issue orders against unions were usually "rewarded", since this strike largely turned American public opinion against large labor unions.
An elaborate program of national reforms to infrastructure that would speed up modernization.
In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts, hysteria broke out about witches. Where many people were hanged after being accused of doing the devils work, witchcraft.