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• What would you consider to be an illegal
drug?
• If the government allows the sale of it, do you
still consider it a drug?
• Propose a system for determining what is a
drug.
Vocabulary
• British East India Company
A company that was responsible for half of the world’s trade and was in
charge of India at one point. The company had private armies and used brutal
tactics to make money.
• Opium
A highly addictive drug produced from the poppy plant. It is similar to heroin
but usually smoked not injected.
Early Trade
• Largely self sufficient
• Portuguese arrive in 1557
• British arrive in 1635
• Trade kept to a few port cities
Opium Trade
• EIC sees potential profit
• Chinese and British smugglers
• Banned in 1799
• By 1838, 12 million addicts
Opium Den in Guangzhou, 1843
Chinese Response
• Read the “Letter Protesting the Opium Trade”
• As you read, come up with five higher level questions.
• What were some of Lin Zexu’s major complaints?
• Using evidence from Lin’s letter, write a two to three paragraph response
to the head of the British East India company to try and persuade him to
give up the Opium trade
• Merchants arrested
• 20,000 chests destroyed
• War breaks out (Opium Wars) and Chinese lose
“Treaty of Nanking, 1842”
• Summarize the articles
• Assess which of the requirements are fair and
which are not.
• Provide a justification for each of your answers.
• Predict how this war and treaty might affect
other countries.
“I Am” Poem (Left)
I am
I wonder
I hear
I see
I am
I pretend
I feel
I touch
I worry
I cry
I am
I understand
I say
I dream
I try
I hope
I am