The scramble for Africa, which lasted from 1876 to 1914, was a brutal imperialistic act. The conquest was led by a man named King Leopold ll. He was born in 1835, and was made king in 1865. Leopold gained territory as the Congo Free State. Great Britain wanted to gain territory, and ended up taking control of a big part of the African continent. The French took control of a lot of Africa too. The Germans also took control of parts of Africa. They all fought, and did all that they could do to gain dominance. The European states had it easy because they had the advanced technology like guns. The Africans didn’t have them because of an agreement not to sell them in Africa. That agreement was made at the Berlin Conference. “The diplomats put on
