THE OPIUM WAR

1. When did the Opium War occur?

 From 1839-1842
2. The 2 countries involved?
 Britain & China
3. What is Opium?
 Opium is a drug made from plants called poppies and it contains the
highly addictive drug heroin.
4. Where were the Opium made?
 British India
4. Why China refused to sell Chinese tea, silk and porcelain to Britain?
 Because they think there’s no need to import their manufactures to the
outside barbarians
5. What did Britain do to?
 It traded with China, they gave China opium while China gave them the
Chinese tea, silk and porcelain
6. How were the Opium were transported to China?
 By British ships
7. Why China wanted to ban the trade after several of trading?
 Because there were millions of people addicted to Opium in China.
8. Why Britain refused to stop the trade?
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9. Who was the new official that the Emperor appointed?
 Lin Tse-Hsu, which was also called “Lin the Clear Sky”
10. Who was the queen in England during that time (1839)?
 Queen Victoria
11. What caused the Opium War?
 China wanted to ban the trade, but Britain refused to do so.
12. What did Lin do when Britain refused to ban the trade?
 He ordered in Chinese troops to seized the opium (nearly 1000tons)
13. What did Lin do to the seized Opium?
 He ordered it to be buried with salt and lime in huge trenches.
14. What was the British’s reaction?
 They were furious.
15. What happen during the war?
 A British gunboat was sent, which fired at and sank 5 Chinese war-
junks in
45 minutes
 A bigger British fleet of steam-powered battleships ariived later and
 Smashed the wooden Chinese sailing-ships sent to meet them
16. Who won?
 Britain won
17. What died?
 Lin Tse-Hsu
18. What was the outcome after the war?
 By the 1842, Treaty of Nanking the British forced the Chinese to open
up more ports, including Hong Kong
 British citizens in these areas were free of Chinese law
 The opium trade doubled and the Chinese emperors were powerless to
stop its effect on their people

Yeo Yu Teng^^