Should Leopold be held responsible for crimes committed in his name if he never set foot in the Congo?
What can individuals (like GW Williams) do when people in power are doing the wrong thing?
What responsibility do other countries have when “crimes against humanity” occur?
How can those in power when crimes against humanity took place be held accountable?
Use the RACES strategy when answering these questions.

The sheer human toll of violence, displacement, disease, and seemingly endless extreme poverty seen over the last two decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is as shocking as anything we have seen in recent times. But to truly understand how DRC has gotten to this point, you have to understand something of its history. Here is our at-a-glance guide to 500 years of Congo history and conflict in the DRC.

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after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

general allotment act (dawes act) february 8, 1887

amendment to the dawes act, february 28, 1891

commission to the five civilized tribes (dawes commission), march 3, 1893