1. Good Morning! NVC Warm-Up: Brutality and Western Civilization
Congo Free State Writing Prompt
Essential Questions: What did Imperialism look like in the Congo Free State?

2. Brutality and Western Civilization
Congo Free State
Haitian Revolution

3. Brutality and Western Values
The Four Core Values of Western Civilization are rights, reason, individualism, and democracy.
Rights: privileges and freedoms people have
Reason: using logic, knowledge, and common sense to make decisions
Individualism: value each individual person as important
Democracy: government led by the individual people that use reason to protect everyone’s rights
How is it possible for Western countries such as Belgium and France to believe in these values, yet also carry out brutal human rights violations in Haiti and the Congo? Respond in AT LEAST FIVE sentences!
Valued profit more than their values
Desired control which leads to brutality
Social Darwinism, didn’t see them as deserving the rights

4. Read Your Textbook
“Leopold claimed that his primary motive in establishing the colony was to abolish the slave trade and promote Christianity. However, he licensed companies that brutally exploited Africans by forcing them to collect sap from rubber plants. At least 10 million Congolese died due to the abuses inflicted during Leopold’s rule. As a result of his cruelty, humanitarians around the world demanded changes. In 1908, the Belgian government took control of the colony away from Leopold. The Belgian Congo, as the colony later became known, was 80 times larger than Belgium.”

5. Congo Prompt
Prompt: Describe the experience of imperialism in the Congo. You will need to analyze each document to find key facts, bias, and perspectives.
Re-Write your textbook using the evidence from the documents!
Includes most important historical background/context from text book or other secondary source/s
Identifies and explains at least one imperial motive (Docs A-B)
Uses at least one piece of evidence of human rights violations (Docs C-F)
Includes 2 direct quotes from different sources that are relevant to the prompt.
make sure to explain the reliability/bias of the source