AP World- Chapter 24

Question 1

China’s crises

Answer 1

• diplomatic not foreign

- dealt by suppressing rebels and dismissing incompetent or untrustworthy officials

Question 2

Mccartney mission

Answer 2

• 1793: attempt by the British to establish diplomatic and trade relations
• turned European opinion against China

Question 3

Canton System

Answer 3

consisted of restrictions by which the Qing limited and controlled foreign trade

Question 4

Social Unrest Causes

Answer 4

• discomfort among the poor, displaced indigenous peoples, resentment of growing European influence
• early emperors encouraged agriculture –> population increased a lot –> increased homeless and unemployed
• farmers dealt with agriculture deterioration

Question 5

White Lotus Rebellion (1794)

Answer 5

• Qing were hated as foreign conquerors and were suspected of sympathy with Europeans
• raged across China, not suppressed until 1804
• initiated series of internal conflicts

Question 6

Ban on Opium (1729)

Answer 6

• British considered this as an intolerable limitation on trade, a direct threat to Britain’s economic health, and a cause for war

Question 7

Opium War (1839-1842)

Answer 7

• broke out when negotiations between Qing officials and British representatives reached a stalemate
• hereditary soldiers for Qing Empire, BANNERMAN, were revealed to be hopelessly obsolete (out-dated)
• exposed Qing military inferiority

Question 8

Treaty of Nanking (1842)

Answer 8

• dismantled the old Canton system
• number of treaty ports (cities opened to foreign residents) increased from 1 to 5
• had to set low tariff
• most favored nation status to Britain

Question 9

Taiping Rebellion

Answer 9

• a Christian inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire
• caused by unstable agriculture & tension b/w Hakkas and the majority

Question 10

Hong Xioquan

Answer 10

• founder of Taiping Rebellion
• younger brother of Jesus, Hakka (like most of his followers)
• believed Manchus to be creatures of Satan