Question

1. what happened in the congo when rubber quotas were not met?

Explanation:

During the Belgian colonial rule of the Congo Free State (late 19th-early 20th century), enforced rubber quotas were brutal. When local Congolese people failed to meet the rubber collection quotas, colonial officials and their mercenary forces imposed severe, violent punishments. These included the amputation of hands (often of men, women, or children) as a terror tactic, mass killings, destruction of villages, and forced labor or imprisonment to coerce compliance.

Answer:

When rubber quotas were not met in the Belgian-controlled Congo Free State, colonial authorities and their enforcers carried out extreme violent reprisals: they amputated the hands of Congolese people (including men, women, and children) as a punitive and terroristic measure, along with mass killings, burning of villages, and further forced labor to compel compliance with the quotas.