HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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British citizens in China were granted extraterritoriality after the war.
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The British lost all trading rights in China after the war.
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Outdated and inefficient British weapons led to a Chinese victory.
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After the war, China received a huge indemnity for its losses from the British.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1850s, the United States and the European powers grew increasingly dissatisfied with both the terms of their treaties with China and the Qing Government’s failure to adhere to them. The British forced the issue by attacking the Chinese port cities of Guangzhou and Tianjin in the Second Opium War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Britain wanted to expand its imperial power and sell more goods, especially the opium whose import the Chinese tried to ban, while the British sold or smuggled in anyway. In other words, it was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.
Detailed explanation-3: -The First Opium War was fought from 1839 to 1842 between China and the United Kingdom, and was triggered by the Chinese government’s campaign to enforce its prohibition against opium trafficking by British merchants.