lol, I must be doing the same geography you're doing. c: They were members of a secret group; they hated foreigners, especially missionaries. Therefore, they opposed outsiders coming into China.
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Their cause, at first, was to overthrow the imperial Ch'ing government and expel all "foreign devils" from China. The crafty empress, however, saw a way to use the Boxers. Through her ministers, she began to encourage the Boxers. Soon a new slogan -- "Support the Ch'ing; destroy the foreigner!" -- appeared upon the Boxers' banner.
The Chinese secret group pledged to rid the country of foreign devils were called Boxers.
Actually, they did oppose them, but the weapons and trained armed soldiers were more powerful.
They were known as, Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists, and it was called 'The Boxer Uprising' or 'The Boxer Rebellion' and it happened in 1900.
Boxers were known as the "righteous fists of harmony."