Big Era 6 Dbq

British merchants were disappointed after a British missionary was unable to establish further trade rights with Britain so they looked

The progressive leaders led the reform process of the nation’s industrial economy in the early years of the 20th century. Through the antirust acts, inspection acts, and regulations on trading, progressive reformers reshaped the way the economy ran. In a political cartoon by the Washington Post in 1907, President Roosevelt is on a dead raccoon with the words “bad trust” shaved into it. The political cartoon does over exaggerate the effectiveness of Roosevelt’s policies regarding trusts, but it does represent the way Roosevelt started the new regulation policies. In his second presidency, he started the “square deal.” This deal first passed Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act of 1906 which put regulations on the industry.

While Progressive Era reformers and the federal government were relatively successful and effective at bringing about some essential forms of national reform like tariff adjustment and trust-busting, there were still many important reforms that many politicians chose to overlook when it came to substantially changing America in the 1900-1920 period. Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson were all particularly influential when it came to changing many aspects of American politics, economy and society, but each had a very specific idea of which reforms should be instated and which should be ignored. By the end of the 1900-1920 period, many of the progressive groups had gotten their reforms passed, but many of

DBQ The progressive era was a time of great social, economic, and political change in the United States that marked major changes in the daily lives of Americans. Between 1870 and 1920, reform movements for almost all aspects of American life took place. Although these reform movements did not affect the upper class, they would shape the majority of society leading all the way up to World War I. Changes in Political initiative, economic policy, and the social environment shaped the time period. American Expansionism and Civil Service examinations changed the political scene while new economic policies like the antitrust acts and the creation of the federal reserve reformed the period’s economic system.

The Progressive Era is the general movement to reform society by increasing government role in America. Progressivism is led by the educated middle-class. Progressives want monopolies, the control of services and prices, to be gone. The effectiveness of Progressives and federal government in bringing change at a national level included solving social problems, equal rights, and the voting system. During the Progressive Era, Progressives and the federal government attempted to solve social problems, promote equal rights, and reform the voting system.

One could say that the trade between China and the Americas had brought many items, such as tea (black tea), drugs (opium) and silk that would incorporate and change the Americas after the American Revolution which ended in 1783. But, the trade between China and the Americas proved great struggle after the British withdrew from the Americas. As a result, the Americas

At the end of the eighteenth century, China 's items were richly fancied by Britain. Nevertheless, the Chinese considered Europeans to be savages and would not have jumped at the chance to trade with them. In the midst of trade, there was an anomaly to bolster China, in light of the fact that the Europeans were constrained to buy Chinese stock using silver. The Western Imperialists began to create opium poppies from in India, and thereafter sneak them into China. China soon got the chance to be reliant on the drug and spent most of it 's money on the purchase of it from the Europeans and Americans. This moved the equality of vitality to be to bolster Europe.

China had friendly relations but the reliance and trust was not beneficial. For a period of time during imperialism, Great Britain allied with China for free trade regulations. China was in agreeance and Britain traded Indian opium which caused drug addiction in China. China tried to stop the drug trade and Britain came with force. “The British used their victory to create the unequal treaty system, which completely turned the tables on China” (197). The First Opium War, turned China

While the wester hemisphere was experiencing drastic changes like colonies attaining their independence and turning into more modern nations, many adversities were taking place throughout nations in the eastern hemisphere. China was one of those nations. China was a nation known for isolating itself from outside influence, especially from the Europeans. Soon the Europeans began to grow jealous of China 's bounty of enticing goods and resources such as porcelain, tea and silk. China on the other hand did not have any need for European goods. In pursuit to put a halt to the trade imbalance between the two nations, Britain started to smuggle opium into China. The reason behind this was because the Chinese had no need for Britain 's goods but

Finally, deeply rooted tensions between Britain and China began to come to the surface as the Chinese attempted to crack down on opium use and trade within its borders.

From 1800-1914 there existed a period of enormous European imperial acquisition that gobbled up entire continents and brought millions of people under Western rule. Much of this mad dash for territory stemmed from the Industrial Revolution and the formation of several new countries, such as Italy, Germany, and Belgium. During the period of rapid industrialization that preceded the second wave of European imperialism, technology and manufacturing processes developed at an extraordinary rate. Although this at first brought profit to countries all on its own, soon the economy had grown too big for the Western resources and market. In order to buoy their capitalist societies, countries like Britain immediately sought out lands that would provide novel resources and markets. With vast amounts of territory came vast amounts of wealth: tea and spices from the Pacific Islands, cocoa and palm oil from West Africa, and gold, diamonds, and other precious metals from South Africa. Using these new goods, Britain adopted mercantilism and continued to profit further off of its colonies. For example, by 1840 Britain was exporting 60% of the cotton

The opium wars revealed many problems with the relationship between China and The Western Powers, especially Great Britain. For example, China had fallen behind the rest of the world economy its technology due to the use of old aged traditions, another example being that once the trading started to expand and free trading was introduced relationships strained between china and The Western Powers, this was all due to the large influx of smuggled / traded opium. When the emperor tried to ban opium from being traded / smuggled into the country the English and the French decided to start two opium wars.

China also experienced imperialism, with the British being the force to come into their territory. Britain’s main motive was economics, with their being a huge demand for Chinese goods such as tea in their market. However, the British did not have enough silver to trade with the Qing dynasty, and therefore used the Indian Opium bartering tactic to get their goods. Opium was a highly addictive drug that took the juice from the opium poppy. There was a spike in usage of opium in China, and this created an increase in the number of addicts in the area. Chinese officials attempted to ban the very highly addictive opium, but ultimately failed. The British then declared war on China that would become known as the Opium Wars. The British overcame

Foreign military and economic intervention by European imperial powers created greater instability in China. Western powers, through an unequal treaty system, engaged in legal imperialism that gave them protection through special rights and privileges that gradually reduced Chinese tradesmen to a subordinate role. Opium trade, fueled by Britain, drained China of silver, and drove up the price of silver. Silver was the standard payment for taxes, but rising prices made tax payments an economic burden for peasants. The First Opium War, 1839 to 1842, resulted in the defeat of the Chinese and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing. The treaty forced ceded Hong Kong to the British and open treaty ports to the British along the southern coast providing Britain with greater access to foreign trade. The emerge of western competition in China threaten the livelihood of people throughout the country and weakened China’s economic power in the region overall. New trade routes, commodities, and the introduction of western business practices affected many people in various parts of the country.

I thoroughly enjoyed the second part of the book that detailed the clash of the Eastern and Western Worlds. It is interesting to see how the demand for a single commodity can cause a war. The Opium Wars were a direct result of England’s obsession over tea. In order to make a fair trade for tea without losing any money, England began to trade opium for tea. As China’s people became addicted, the large demand for opium had to be address by the Chinese government. The government’s destruction and banning of opium cause a problem for England and so began the Opium Wars. This was so interesting to me because China’s current economic conditions could be linked back to the restitutions and trading standards they were placed under centuries ago. It