Alex C said for 3/3...

On Wednesday we learned about china and the western effect there. The British sent lord McCartney to negotiate with the Chinese emperor, but that didnt change anything. So when the British started selling opium anyway, they sent a letter to Queen Victoria. The letter said that opium is a very poisonous drug and that it isnt right that they keep selling it in china while it is banned in England. The chinese are almost calling queen Victoria a drug dealer, but the British keep selling it.

We also looked at the treaty of nanking. We talked about what was unfair in the treaty, like how the british take cities and ports for themselves, but the chinese have no say nor do they get anything. The Chinese also have to pay England 21 million dollars over 3 years, which is alot of money for that short amount of time. Especially since china isn't doing so well economically. This treaty also gave english citizens extra-territoriality(spelling may be wrong), which is when they dont have to follow chinese laws and just the english ones. This means that while they can't go murdering people and do whatever they want they are able to freely sell opium and use any port. British got Hong Kong as well.
Then the European countries set up their spheres of influence, which is an area that is used only for economic purposes, they leave the political and social systems intact. The U.S gets wind of these spheres and create the "open door policy" which states that any country is allowed free trade in china. Most of the other European countries didnt really care but we view is as a victory.

We also got our "detective" worksheets, which is from the notes of Sanford Holmes Calhoun(where did she get that name from? I wonder...) which we have to read one of the three documents about the Taiping rebellion, the self-strengthening movement and the boxer rebellion.