Transcript China Resists Outside Influence

• 1. Name 5 motives for imperialism.
• 2. What was the Berlin Conference?
• 3. Imperialism was often referred to as “The White Man’s
Burden.” Why?
• 4. How did nationalism lead to imperialism?
• 5. How did the industrial revolution lead to imperialism?
• PS: Vocab is due next Wednesday 3/12
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30. Unit 6 Vocab
31. Industrial Revolution
32. Quiz Study Guide
33. Effects of the I.R.
34. Capitalism/Communism
35. Meiji Japan
36. Imperialism in Asia
37. Unit 6 Test Review
38. Africa
39. Imperialism in China
Can they resist the foreigners?
• Come up with 3 reasons
why China did not want to
trade with outsiders?
•Self sufficient
•Economy based on agriculture
•Confucius beliefs
•Remember the kowtow?
• Balance of trade was clearly favoring
the Chinese
• Just leave them alone?
• China had extensive resources and
products:
• Silk, high quality cottons, fine
porcelain
• Rich salt, tin, silver, and iron
• The Europeans are frustrated…
• Come up with one way that the Europeans
could equal out the balance of trade?
• Opium
• Addictive narcotic from the poppy plant
• Relieves pain
• European merchants smuggled opium into China
• What happened?
• 12 million Chinese people were addicted to the
drug
• Qing emperor was furious
• Opium War -1839 between the British
and Chinese
• British humiliated the Chinese
• Treaty of Nanjing – peace treaty
• Gave Britain island of Hong Kong
• Extraterritorial rights – foreign
citizens in China were not subject
to Chinese laws
• 1) People are frustrated after Opium War
• 2) Population “exploded” but agriculture
had not
• Hungry and addicted to opium
• 3) Hong Xiuquan: “Heavenly Kingdom
of Great Peace”
• All Chinese people would share
wealth
• Predict: What will happen next in China?
• Massive peasant army of 1 million
• Captured SE China and city of Nanjing
• What happened?
• Fighting within the rebellion
• Attacks from Qing and Europeans
• Foreign countries attacked China
and signed treaties
• Sphere of Influence – an area in
which the foreign nation controlled
trade and investment
• Americans were worried that
China would be divided into
colonies
• Declared Open Door Policy
• China was not colonized
• Trading could occur
• Explain this picture:
• Come up with the major effect of each event below:
• 1. Opium War
• 2. Taiping Rebellion
• 3. Open Door Policy