Social Studies semester 2 final

what were the positives and negatives impacts social and economical of the sepoy rebellion

Posotive: the raj introduced a vast railroad network, modern medical advancements, telegraph lines, improved sanitation, and western style schools.

negative:The British forced Indian agriculture to switch entirely from substitence farming to cash crops like cotton and indigo to feed British factories this shift triggered wide spread deforestation,m food shortages, and massive famines that killed millions of Indians.

What was the opium war

British merchants began smuggling opium from India into china. Addiction spread rapidly causing silver to flow out of china and disrupting the economy the government outlawed the drug executed dealers and then destroyed opium shipments Britain refused to stop the trade citing the right to free trade which led to the war. (the British eventually won the war)

what was the treaty of nanjing

China was forced too sing this treaty where they had to pay a massive financial indemnities to Britain for its war losses and hand over Hong Kong as a colony and open five major ports to unrestricted foreign trade.

what is the taiping rebellion

peasant uprising nearly destabilizing the Qing dynasty resulting in the destruction and a high death toll.w

hat was the hundred days reform

blaming traditional conservative leaders for chinas inability to resist foreign powers the emperor Guang xu launched the hundred days reform to rapidly modernize the civil service bureaucracy the military the school systems and industry. However, the the empress launched a palace coup imprisoned Guang xu executed key reformers and halted all modernization efforts.

what was the boxing uprising

a secret nationalist society known as the righteous harmonious fists rose up to expel foreign influence and christian missionaries from china. they attacked foreigners across northern china and besieged foreign embassies in Beijing an international coalition of western powers and Japan landed troops and defeated the boxers.

What was the aftermath and transformation after the boxinguprising

china was forced to grant even more concessions the Qing court finally realized the urgent need for modernization schools replaced traditional confusion study with western science and mathematics allowed women to attend classes and a few cubes bysubess class emerged.