Name ___________________________ Date ______________Period________
World Cultures:
Imperialism in China
Using this web site for Imperialism in China website, read and search for the answers to
the following questions:
Note: Both the website and worksheet will also be on my website titled:
Imperialism in China
1. Looking at the first map (homepage), describe in your own words the relationship
between England & India under the imperialist system.
Go to China Icon on left.
2. Why was the British treasury being depleted?
3. How did the Chinese view the goods that China wanted to trade with them?
4. What did Britain begin to import to China to solve this trade imbalance?
5. Where did this product come from?
6. Did China try to ban this import?
7. Who won the Opium War?
8. How did they win?
Define:
9. Unequal Treaties (click on term for definition)
10. What four things were the Chinese to do based on the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing?
11. What other countries eventually forced China to sign unequal treaties?
12. What are spheres of influences?
13. What did the U.S. demand?
14. What does Open Door Policy mean?
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15. Did the Chinese agree?
16. Define sovereignty?
17. What were the Chinese disgusted with?
18. What was the Taiping Rebellion? Who won?
19. What was the Boxer Rebellion? Who won?
20. How long had Chinese Dynasties ruled China?
21. When did dynastic rule come to an end?
22. Who was Sun Yixian?
23. Who did he overthrow?
24. What was the name of his political group/party?
25. What did he establish in China for the first time?
26. What is he also known as?
27. What happened in China after his death?
28. Who was Mao Zedong during the Civil war?
29. What did he stand for?
30. What did he establish in 1949?
31. In a communist party who controls the power of the country?
32. What does the state control and what does it repress?
33. When did he die?
34. Who was Jiang Jieshi? What group did he represent?
35. What two things did he fight for?
36. Where did he flee to when he lost the civil war in 1949?
37. What is he also called (known as)?
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