Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion

William McKinley.

By acting in the Boxer Rebellion, the United States proved they would use force to promote their own business interests.

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Peking, China.

others say 20,000, others 50,000, others 80,000, even 150,000. i would say about 1,000,000

After the Boxer Rebellion, Boxer leaders were executed, and the palaces were looted.

It led to a revolt against the Chinese imperial government,

They were attempts to rid China of the increased number of foreigners that were taking over the lands of China.

In the 19th century many wester countries implemented un-fair treaties on to China. Many exaple were the Treaty of Caton and the Treaty of Whampoa. From around the 1850's to 1901 these treaties took place. There were many treaties. These Treaties consisted of taking China's land, enforcing trade tariffs, and many citizens rights were change. Buy the Summer of 1900 China was sick of all of the Western Influence. A group called the Boxers in June of 1900 set out destroy everything that was foriegn. So they did. But in August the Boxer Rebellion was shut down and the last unfair treaty was implemented, the Boxer Protocol.

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The Chinese people were tired of foreign influence.

The boxer rebellion is an example of diplomacy by other means. The Chinese were unable to make progress through diplomcacy with the European nations and were not strong enough to go to war - so they encouraged the boxers to attack Europeans probably thinking this would allow them to shirk responsibility abut reap the benefits.

Boxer- he said what ever napoleon says is always for the best. He truly tried his hardest and ends up working himself to death.

Boxer thinks the revolution will work.

Benjamin- always saying nothing is going to change. His view is that this is never going to change our status for the better. Things are still going to be bad, their will still be hunger, sickness, unfairness and death.

He thinks the rebellion is not going to change things.

-It led to the fall of the Qing government

-The enormous reparations demanded by the United States hurt the Chinese economy.

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foreign forces engage Chinese nationalists in battle at Tianjin,China

Chinese folk religion/buddhism/taoism. Chinese often believed in a synthesis of the three (at least in the past they did, now as a result of the communist revolution a large part of China's population is atheist).

rise of nationalism in China

they invaded China, massacred some some boxers and many civilians, then they asked China to pay for damaged churches, dead foreigners, and their military expense in China, and then they forced China to sign more unequal treaties, and it ended.

Imperialism, and the intrusion of foreign culture and customs on a native population. In the Sepoy Mutiny it was the British who intruded. In the Boxer Rebellion it was the British again with eight other imperial powers from continental Europe, and the two new kids on the imperial block; the US and Japan.

foreign domination

The U.S.A. and its allies gave peace.

The Boxer Rebellion was a violent anti-foreign and -Christian movement occurring before the Russo-Japanese war. Any ships that sunk in relation to this event were sunk later in the war.

The story was a hoax. Preachers use this story to illustrate the power of words.