Opium Trade and the Chinese Response
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Why did Lin Zexu write to Queen Victoria?

  • To ask for more opium to be sent to China
  • To request British intervention to stop the opium trade (correct)
  • To offer Chinese goods in exchange for opium
  • To negotiate a trade deal with Britain
  • What did the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 require the Chinese to do?

  • Allow unrestricted British opium trade
  • Increase taxes on imported British goods
  • Grant extraterritoriality to Chinese traders
  • Give up the island of Hong Kong (correct)
  • How did the Chinese react when British refused to stop the opium trade?

  • They blockaded a foreign area in Guangzhou (correct)
  • They appealed to other Western countries for help
  • They sanctioned British traders
  • They increased opium production in China
  • What practice allowed Europeans in China to live under their home country's laws?

    <p>Extraterritoriality</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did the Qing Dynasty agree to limit in the Treaty of Nanjing?

    <p>Imported British goods</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did the British respond to the Chinese blockade in Guangzhou?

    <p>They declared war on China</p> Signup and view all the answers

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