Britain saw its colonists as a source of PROFIT. What colonists are is people that go to other places, claim land, and make their own colonies. This profited Britain because the colonies that are formed in other places have stuff that Britain doesn't have, and the colonies can come back to great Britain and gives them things that profit them. Also, because the colonists got more land, those lands would first belong to Great Britain because the colonists were not independent from Great Britain, and land costs a lot of money, which means that Britain is getting a lot of money from land.
<em>The main idea of this passage is;</em>
King Leopold, not the governor general, really rules the Congo Free State.
<u>You know this when you read this line from the excerpt; </u>
<em><u>"The real headquarters of the Etat independant du Congo [Congo Free State] were not in Boma but in the suites of offices in Brussels [home city of Leopold II], one on the grounds of the Royal Palace,"</u></em>
Answer:
Paid less than white soldiers
Explanation:
African Americans were treated worse by white soldiers and they were declared as “contraband”
it was unsuccessful in bringing about unity and understanding of the races after the civil war.
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