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World Studies Test #4 (Important People (Queen Victoria (The empress of…

- - - - Britain established a railroad network
      - India was forced to stop growing food and start growing cash crops for Britain
      - Many Indian people starved because of the lack of food being grown in India
    - - The Hindu and Muslim Sepoys heard that the cartridge they had to bite was greased with pig and cow fat (their sacred animals) so they rebelled against Britan
      - British troops were able to stop the rebellion because they used the telegraph to communicate faster than the Sepoys could on horse
      - In response to the rebellion and the horrible things the British East India Company did to the rebelling Sepoys, the British gov't took direct control of India
    - - Britan earned a ton of money form India growing only cash crops
  - - - Britain got many people addicted to opium from a party and then the opium spread throughout China
      - Chinese would pay any amount in order to get Opium
    - - Commisioner Lin goes to the harbor where the Opium is coming from and dumps out millions of $'s of Opium
      - Britain declared war on China because they know Britain has better technology than China
      - Britain won both Opium wars
    - - Britain gets Hong Kong
      - China loses land and control of trade ports
      - China pays Britain millions $$$
      - Opium is legalized in China
      - China has to trade with Britain first no matter what
      - Chinese law doesn't apply to British people even if their in China