Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Opium crisis in the United States, The opium import in the USA became an …
Opium crisis in the United States
Problem increasing
1829, the Imperial Government of China prohibited the consume of Opio, so the flow of Opio to United States became frequently and with more quantity of product.
The United States enter to the Opium trade after the UK counteract
Conflict between USA and Japan
Treaty of Wangxia
First formal treaty signed between the United States and China in 1844.
Replicated many of the key terms of the Treaty of Nanjing firmed by China and UK.
It established five treaty ports as open for Chinese-Western trade: Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai.
known as the “unequal treaties”
Treaty of Tianjin
Western powers concluded a series of treaties with China in an effort to open its lucrative markets to Western trade in 1858
Chinese signed: 1858.it took two more years of fighting before the Chinese Government was disposed to ratify them and accept. :explode:
Conquenses:
Opening of new ports to trade.
-Commercial ships could sail across theYangtze .
-China had to pay financial compensation for the cost of the war.
-The opium trade was legalized.
-Economic compensation to merchants.
US went from the main opium transporter and smuggler
Into the main provider of American missionaries agitating in an anti-opium mood.
The opium import in the USA became an
increasing concern.
Anti-Japanese strategy
