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The Opium Wars

Learning Objective: Why did Britain and China go to war?

Activity
1. What do you see in the picture?
2. How is this postbox different to others you’ve
seen?
3. Come up with a reason why it is different.
The photograph of
the postbox was
taken next to this.
- What do you see
in this picture?
- Why do you think
the postbox was
different?
- Where do you
think the postbox
was?
The Chinese characters say: Ya Pian Zhan Zheng – Opium War. The characters next to
Hong Kong are: Xiang Gang (Hong Kong)
Wow Word: Opium
A highly addictive and dangerous
drug.

Discussion
What do you think the Opium Wars were?
British Empire

Activity
Read page 44 “The British in China”.
1. List at least 3 ways the British Empire made money.
2. Challenge – What could Britain do if a country did not wish to buy British goods?
What is grown in China?
What is grown in China?

Tea!
The British really wanted to buy Chinese
The Problem things, especially tea, but also porcelain
and other goods.
However, the Chinese didn’t want to buy
“To the Chinese anything British – so Britain was unable
anything [foreign] to trade with China!

was by definition
Activity
inferior… China was Read the quote about Chinese attitudes
wholly self-sufficient, to trading.
both culturally and 1. What is the Chinese attitude to
trading with other countries?
materially, [they saw] The Chinese attitude to trading was…
China:no value
From Empire to People’s in
Republic 1900-49, P7, 2018

maintaining contact 2. Challenge – suggest one way Britain


could make China trade with it.
with foreigners.” To force the Chinese to trade, Britain
could…
The causes of the wars

Since the 18th Century, Britain had been illegally selling the drug Opium grown in India to the
Chinese, which had given 12 Million Chinese an Opium addiction and caused many deaths.

Activity
Write a short paragraph to the question below using just the information you already
know.

How might this have led to war between Britain and China?
The Opium Wars were two armed conflicts between Britain and China. Since the 18th
Century, Britain had been illegally selling the drug Opium grown in India to the Chinese,
which had caused a widescale Opium addiction and many deaths. Therefore, in 1839,
the Chinese Emperor confiscated 1,400 tons of the drug from a British owned
warehouse.
Since the 18th Century, Britain had been illegally selling the drug Opium grown in India to the
Chinese, which had given 12 Million Chinese an Opium addiction and caused many deaths.
In 1839, the Chinese Emperor confiscated and 1,400 tons of Opium from a British owned warehouse.
20,000 chests were destroyed, with today at around $400,000,000.
Activity
How might this have led to war between Britain and China?
Rewrite out the paragraph, this time adding in this new information

Challenge – Explain how the new information has changed what you think caused the
wars.
Why did the Opium War begin?
Many people in China were addicted to smoking
opium. The British grew opium in India, This drug is
extremely addictive, similar to heroin.
The British would then illegally smuggle the opium
into China to sell to them for high profits. This meant
the more opium addicts there were, the more profits
Britain would make.
In 1839, however the Chinese Emperor ordered raid
on a British owned warehouse, in which 1,400 tons of
British Opium was confiscated.

This caused the Opium War because ...


Activity
Using a purple pen, add any missing information or explanation to your previous answer

Finish the sentence This caused the Opium War because ... (include at least two facts)
The Battles of the
Opium Wars

Activity
In the Opium War the British forces…

The British were successful because…


Another reason is…
Britain responded by sending warships to attack and occupy the Chinese city of Canton.
This caused the lives of 2900 British sailors and soldiers and China had 12,000 – 30,000
killed or wounded.

A second Opium War of 1856 – 60 further secured the rights of Britain and other western
nations to trade freely with China.
The first “unequal treaty”
In 1842 the British forced the
Chinese to sign The Treaty of
Nanking.

Activity
Read page 46.

1.Write out 4 terms of this treaty.

2. Explain how the Chinese may have felt about this treaty.

3. Challenge – Study the picture above. What do you think this suggests about the
relationship between Britain and China?
The Second Opium War
In 1856 – 60, a second Opium war broke out
between China against both Britain and France.

Activity

Read page 46.


1. Summarise the Second Opium War in 3 clear bullet points.

2. a. Explain a similarity between the Second Opium War to the First.

b. Explain a difference between the Second Opium War to the First.


The Boxer Rebellion
In 1900, a movement in China known as the Boxers launched a
rebellion against the “Foreign Devils” in China.

Activity

Read “Opposition and Oppression” on page 47. Complete the


boxes below filling in the gaps
The causes of the This meant 8 The events of the After the The results of the
Boxer rebellion colonial Boxer rebellion colonial Boxer rebellion
countries nation’s victory
were ….. including
were ….. over China
were …..
Britain

Missing Words
Boxers colonial Qing Dynasty European Churches Republic
Why do many
Chinese people
call the 1840’s –
1940’s “The
Century of
Humiliation?

Activity
Over a whole page, complete the spider diagram above, using knowledge in the textbook
from pages 45 – 47, covering the time from the First Opium War to the Boxer Rebellion.
The aftermath

香港 Hong Kong
The aftermath
As a result of the British victory in the Opium War, the British were
given Hong Kong.
It was a small fishing village, neither the Chinese nor the British
thought was important. However the British set about building it up!

Activity
Take notes on what happened
after the British won.

香港 Hong Kong
The aftermath
The British built an army HQ and a naval
base to keep Hong Kong safe.

Army HQ

香港 Hong Kong Naval base


The aftermath
They built a parliament building and a house for the Governor to run
Hong Kong democratically.

And a new flag!


The aftermath
Britain built schools and hospitals and universities.
Today, Hong Kong has some of the best school results in the world!

香港 Hong Kong
The aftermath
The British built postboxes Lots of postboxes! And stamps!
The aftermath
But what made Hong Kong rich was… Finance!

香港 Hong Kong
The aftermath
Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
But lots of Hong Kongers, young and old,
would like Hong Kong to become British again.

香港 Hong Kong
The aftermath

香港 Hong Kong
Writing a narrative account
Your next task will be to produce a historical narrative account on the First Opium War.

Writing a narrative account is a form of assessment on the current GCSE History exam
paper.

It is an organised answer, explaining an event in chronological order, with a clear


beginning, middle and end.
Writing a narrative account
What is a narrative account?
• This is an organised explanation of an event over a period of time in the chronological
order it happened in.
• There needs to be a clear beginning, middle and end.
• It must clearly address the causes, how each event led to the next and end with the
outcome.

You are now going to write out the Opium Wars as a


Narrative Account as this should be familiar to you
already.

You WILL NOT be assessed on this.


Practise Assessment Question
Write a Narrative Account analysing the events of the first Opium War from 1839 to 1842.

The start
The main causes of the Opium
War were…..

The events of the Opium War


were…..

The result of the Opium War


was…..

The outcome of the Opium War


The end was…..
Writing a narrative account
Key linking words to use in your Narrative Account
began became developed realised changed

ended intensified grew followed worsened

improved increased reinforced encouraged deteriorated

Assessment question – “Write a Narrative Account analysing the events from 1839
to 1842 of the First Opium War.”

Success Criteria:
• Have at least 4 paragraphs
• Each paragraph must contain clear factual knowledge (names, places, dates etc)
• Each paragraph must have linking words or phrases that explain how events
developed. These should be underlined.
• An ending with a clear outcome
An example of another Narrative Account
“Write a Narrative Account analysing the events from 1096 to 1099 of the First Crusade.”

In 1095, the Pope called for a Crusade to the Holy Land capture the city of Jerusalem. He
encouraged men to go by promising a place in Heaven for anyone who fought on it.
Consequently, thousands of men made the long, dangerous and difficult journey across
Europe, resulting in them meeting at the city of Constantinople and entering the Holy Land as
a huge army.
In 1097, the Crusaders captured the city of Nicaea by battering down their walls. This gave them
the confidence to then siege the city of Antioch and for Baldwin of Flanders to defeat a Muslim
army at Edessa. However, as the siege lasts many months, they begin to starve causing some
to leave. Their solution was to bribe the city’s gatekeeper to let them into Antioch. Once in the
city however, the situation worsened when a large Muslim army arrived and surrounded them.
Things quickly developed however when a peasant found “The Holy Lance”. This reinforced
the Crusader’s religious faith and inspired them to defeat the larger Muslim army. In June 1099,
they arrived at Jerusalem and captured it after a siege. The Crusade had intensified their greed
and cruelty, cruelly, as they murdered around 70,000 Jews and Muslims in the city.
The Crusaders thanked God for their success and subsequently, Jerusalem became a Christian
Kingdom for the next century.
Narrative Account Question

2. Write a narrative account analysing the key events of the First Opium War in the years
1839-42.

You may use the following in your answer:


• The illegal British Opium Trade
• The British seize the port of Hong Kong

You must also use information of your own 8 marks


8 mark Narrative Account : Peer Assessment
AO1: Knowledge and understanding of features and characteristics.
AO2: Analysis of second-order concepts: consequence
• A simple narrative is written showing limited analysis of the events included.
1-2
• Limited knowledge is shown.
• The narrative shows some organisation of a series of events, leading an
outcome.
• The account of events shows some analysis of the linkage between them, but
3-5 some passages of the narrative may lack coherence and organisation.
• Accurate and relevant information is used.
• Maximum 4 marks for answers that do not go beyond aspects prompted by
the stimulus points.
• The narrative is organised into a clear sequence of events leading to an
outcome.
6-8 • The account of events analyses the links between them and is logically
structured.
• Accurate and relevant information is included
Assessment

There are three features you can talk about:


1. Why the Opium War began.
2. How the British won the war.
3. The aftermath, what Britain did with Hong Kong after the war.

One feature of the Opium War was…


(Describe the feature using facts)
Another feature of the Opium War was…
(Describe the feature using facts)

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