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OPIUM WAR

OPIUM WAR. By: Corrinne Blue. Before Conflict. Before 1820, British private traders in India had been able to buy opium from India and to sell to China 1820 to 1830, opium trade to China increased, reaching as many as 18,000 chests a year

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OPIUM WAR

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  1. OPIUM WAR By: Corrinne Blue

  2. Before Conflict • Before 1820, British private traders in India had been able to buy opium from India and to sell to China • 1820 to 1830, opium trade to China increased, reaching as many as 18,000 chests a year • By 1836 about 1,800 tons of opium were imported to China annually and the volume kept rising

  3. Cause of War • Estimated about 12.5 million addicts were in China in 1836 • Drain of silver because of the opium trade • China viewed the opium as a 'moral poison’ • Officials claimed that total prohibition was impossible • Chinese government attempted to end this trade

  4. War Breaks Out • Open warfare between Britain and China broke out in 1839 • Second Opium War • China was defeated in both wars leaving its government having to tolerate the opium trade • Britain forced the Chinese government into signing the Treaty of Nanking and the Treaty of Tianjin

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