Satsuma Rebellion

China’s Rural Crisis: The Fall of Power The Qing dynasty ended in 1912 with a revolution; however, it had been declining for more than a century before it falls. Corruptions within the empire, population growth combined with food shortages, and the social unrest between the ethnic majority Han and the ruling Machus all contributed to Qing’s downfall. However, despite all of these internal issues, it was external pressures that caused the eventual collapse of the Qing society. Foreign…

In the 19th century, since the trade’s well development between Taiwan and Mainland China, many land owners and merchants became a powerful force in local society. Among others, Wufeng Lins was a well-known prominent family in Taichung city. The power of the politics, the army, the agriculture, and the trade had been made the Lins family flourished for more than a hundred years. The Lins also owned a large portion of lands in Taiwan, especially in the central regions. Historically, they even had…

Qing government. One of the most important factors for this rebellion was arguably the western religious influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the boxers because they performed physical that the rebels / boxers believe can make them withstand to bullets, the rebels killed chinese chritians and destroy foreign property. Even though the boxer rebellion did not really change the chinese political in a…

John Mitchell were found guilty of treason, but were later pardoned by President Washington. In 1802, President Jefferson repealed the excise tax on whiskey. The real hero in the Whiskey Rebellion was George Washington. He deserves all the credit and recognition for the actions concerning the rebellion. After local and federal officials were attacked, President George Washington and his advisors decided to send troops to salvage the situation. Another significant individual was Henry…

Why were African-Americans not more successful in resisting the institution of slavery? It has been highlighted by many scholars that the slave rebellions in the United States were very minute when compared with the slave revolts that occurred in places like Jamaica, Brazil and Russia. This brings up the question of why and how this was the case. What made the slaves in the United States less likely to resist their unfavourable conditions? It can be identified that for southern slaves in…

Whiskey rebellion also known as “Whiskey Insurrection” happened in the western Pennsylvania in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. This was one of the huge conflicts that United States had to face after American Revolution. George Washington and many more people from federal government thought that the Whiskey Rebellion was the single most significant event in the history of the United States in the 1790s. This event caused many problems and issues for the people and…

The first Opium War in 1839 to 1842 forced China to step into the modern world. Since then, China has been plundered and invaded by both Eastern and Western powers, most of which were inferior to China before 19th century. This was because that while the Westerns were establishing and industrializing the new modern societies, we Chinese still lived with the old ideas and without being improved. Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan suggested the importance of having advanced technologies and learnt ideologies…

the country apart and the Boxer Rebellion initiated a nationalist movement against the invasion of foreigners and foreign dogmas during the Qing Dynasty. This text detailed the intricate origins this rebellion with explicit detail and support for its claims of origin. While this rebellion ended in the defeat of Chinese rebels because of the intervention of the Great powers , it remains an important part of Chinese nationalistic history. The origins of this rebellion started as many others…

The subjects of the Qing Dynasty felt anger towards their emperor for giving in instead of towards the Europeans. This resentment towards their emperor led to the Taiping rebellion. After that there was a major epidemic, followed by a series of many reforms, which have been previously discussed. Unlike the subjects of the Qing Dynasty, the subjects of the Ottoman Empire had an intense hate for Europeans. This resentment they…

Q8. The Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion had several similarities between the two; on the other hand, they had a handful of differences. The main similarity the two shared was the fact that they were both violent uprisings located in China. Adding to this, they both used fighting in order to share their beliefs and disagreements with the way things were currently operating. The Taiping Rebellion and the Boxer Rebellion had similar means when it came to the action that took part in…