HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Religious reform movements
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Reactions to the opium trade
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Attempts to kick foreigners out the country.
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Successful revolts against absolute monarchs
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Sepoy Mutiny was a rebellion against British rule in India, while the Boxer Rebellion was a revolt against foreign powers, including Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, in China. So, the correct answer is: They were movements opposing foreign imperialists.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their goal was to drive foreign influence out of China. In 1900, the Boxers attacked foreigners across China. The rebellion was crushed by multinational force that included Western powers and Japan.
Detailed explanation-3: -Boxers. The uprising was initiated by a Chinese secret society called the Yihetuan (Righteous and Harmonious Fists). This group practised a form of martial arts that resembled boxing, at least to Western eyes. The ‘Boxers’, as they became known, embarked on an armed campaign to drive all foreigners out of China.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising against foreigners that occurred in China about 1900, begun by peasants but eventually supported by the government. A Chinese secret society known as the Boxers embarked on a violent campaign to drive all foreigners from China.
Detailed explanation-5: -The rebels, referred to by Westerners as Boxers because they performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets, killed foreigners and Chinese Christians and destroyed foreign property.