Opium Wars Great Britain France crush China forcing them back into the drug trade. China loses Hong Kong East India Company controls opium exports worldwide

3. •Opium is the sap from the
opium poppy seed pod

4. •Opium is the sap from the
opium poppy seed pod
•Narcotic

5. •Opium is the sap from the
opium poppy seed pod
•Narcotic
•It’s usually smoked.

6. •Opium is the sap from the
opium poppy seed pod
•Narcotic
•It’s usually smoked.
•Used to make morphine,
demerol, methadone

7. Most opium was grown in India
and Turkey
and Traded by the British East
India Company

8. China had silk, tea, and
porcelain.
China with its 300 million
people was self-sufficient.

9. • British East India
Company smuggled opium
into China in order to get
the 3 commodities.
• China tried to stop the
trade.

10. •1841- War broke out

11. UNEQUAL
TREATY
•1+0
1842

12. 1. Chinese paid British
war losses (reparations)
1842

13. 1. Chinese paid British war
losses (reparations)
2. British citizens living in
China gained
extraterritoriality.
1842

14. 1. Chinese paid British war losses (reparations)
2. British citizens living in China gained
extraterritoriality.
3. Weakened the Qing
(Manchu) Dynasty over next
60 years.
1842

15. 1. Chinese paid British war losses (reparations)
2. British citizens living in China gained extraterritoriality.
3. Weakened the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty over next 60 years.
4. BRITISH GAINED THE
ISLAND OF
HONG KONG.
1842

16. 1. Chinese paid British war losses (reparations)
2. British citizens living in China gained extraterritoriality.
3. Weakened the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty over next 60 years.
4. BRITISH GAINED THE ISLAND OF
HONG KONG.
5. Treaty ports- Shanghai +
11 others
1842

18. Hong Kong
1900
Today

19. TREATY PORTS

20. CIVIL WAR
Cause: Weakness from Treaty of
Nanjing
Time: 1850-1864
Leader: Hung Hsiu-ch’uan
Deaths: 20 million

21. OPEN
DOOR
POLICY

22. The Dowager
Empress Cuxi

23. • BRITISH and FRENCH
against the CHINESE

24. • BRITISH and FRENCH
against the CHINESE
• 1857-1860

25. • BRITISH and FRENCH against
the CHINESE
• 1857-1860
• In Convention of Beijing,
Britain got Kowloon Peninsula
• Legalized the opium trade

26. • Righteous and Harmonious
Fists

27. • Righteous and Harmonious
Fists
• Attacks on foreigners

28. • Righteous and Harmonious
Fists
• Attacks on foreigners
• European multinational force

29. Hong Kong was
returned to China
in 1997.
Macao was
returned in 1999.