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The Opium Trade and Wars - Coggle Diagram
The Opium Trade and Wars
Major Events
The Second Opium War
The British won the war with the joined forces from the French ending with a greatly weakened Qing Dynasty in China.
The First Opium War
The British won the war with many Chinese officers committing suicide once they could not repel the attacks from the British.
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Consequences
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The First Opium War
There are five new Chinese treaty ports where the British merchants and their families could reside.
British citizens residing in the new treaty ports are subjected to the British and its laws and are not towards the Chinese laws.
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The British gets the most favored nation clause with any rights from any other countries which would apply to Great Britain.
Cause of War
The Second Opium War
The Chinese government restricted the British government to create more unequal agreements after the first war.
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The British pressured China militarily to open up with the help of how the Chinese arrested a Chinese ship by the British.
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The First Opium War
More and more Chinese were smoking British opium making China to ban the production and importation of opium.
The Chinese Emperor got more angry when members of his army and the government were engaged in smoking opium.
Lin Zexu arrested over 1600 Chinese dealers and seizing while destroying tens of thousands of opium pipes.
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Lin pressured the Portuguese to expel the uncooperative British, forcing them to move to the island of Hong Kong.
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There were increasing demands from merchants in China, India, and London when they discovered their profits were destroyed.