From 1850 to 1880, Great Britain, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Belgium competed for colonies in Africa. Europeans perceived African colonies as sources for raw materials to support industries and places where European settlers could set up trading and mining economies. Most European colonialism in the 1800s: forcibly dispossessed indigenous people of their land and used it for white settler farming operations; imposed the idea of private property on societies that had no conception of private property; used natives as a labor force for European settler farmers and colonial mining operations; changed a local barter economy to a commercial economy by paying wages for native labor and charging taxes and land rent fees; installed a colonial government to regulate trade and deal with social unrest. How did these European practices affect independent colonial nations in the twentieth century? A . Colonial infrastructure produced rapid economic growth throughout the early 1900s. B. Colonial economic systems brought prosperity to indigenous communities. C. Colonial policies created social divisions within African societies for generations. D. Colonial barter economies provided support for
