What led king leopold 2 to lose control of lands in the congo

By 1908, public pressure and diplomatic manoeuvres led to the end of Leopold 2's rule and to the annexation of the Congo as a colony of Belgium, known as the Belgian Congo.

The second , larger puritan colony of massachusetts bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill". but it also struggled with internal turmoil like the salem witch trials and external conflicts like king philip's (metacom's) war.