1/29/2013 Warm Up

Summarize the events in the video. What is your opinion regarding this?Answer in paragraph form, five lines minimum.

The Opium War

• Use your notes or textbook pp. 344-345 to answer the following:

Title your paper, and include your name and date1. What was the issue that caused tension

between Great Britain and China?2. How were users and traders punished?3. What event caused war to break out?4. What was the result of the war?

5. Which country, in your opinion, was correct in their actions? Why?

“Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria Lin Zexu

Read Paragraphs 1 and 2

• 6. How does Lin Zexu portray the rulers of each country? Does he seem to favor one or the other?

Read Paragraph 3

7. What caused the Emperor’s “towering rage”?8. What is meant by “commercial intercourse”?

Read Paragraph 4

9. Based on the context in which it is used, what does usurped mean?

Read Paragraph 5

10. Based on the letter, if you were an opium smuggler, would you turn yourself into the emperor? Why?

11. What advice does Lin give to the Queen?

Read Paragraph 6

12.What arguments are made by Lin in this paragraph?

13. What threat is made by Lin?

Read Paragraph 7

14.How does Lin attempt to convince Queen Victoria to see his point of view?

15. How does he give her an opportunity to “save face”?

Read Paragraph 8

16.What are two pieces of advice Lin gives to the Queen.

17.What does he say will happen if she follows his advice?

18. Draw a comparison of the situation in China in 1839 to the war on drugs in the United States today.