Opium Wars Timeline

By Manuferol
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    China - Isolationism

    Limited activities of foreign trade and involvement
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    Trade imbalance

    Sell Opium to China ➜ Drug Addiction rises China bans opium, executes drug dealers China asks Britain to stop trading Opium Britain refuses to claim free trade
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    First Opium War

    Loss Chinese ➜ Treaty of Nanjing
    1. Five ports for Britain's trade
    2. For costs of 21M of war
    3. Hong Kong
    4. Opium trade continues into the 20th century
    5. "Most favored ration"
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    Second Opium War

    Britain + France vs China ➜ Treaty of Tianjin
    1. Ten more ports
    2. Open embassies in Beijing
    3. Christian missionaries
    4. Legal Opium trade