Fill out the following chart based on the information below.
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The Taiping
Rebellion (1850 - 1864) |
The Boxer Rebellion (1900) |
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After completing the chart answer the following question:
What similarities are there between the two rebellions?
The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 64)
The Taiping Rebellion (1850 - 64) was by
far the bloodiest war of the nineteenth century. The revolt was a radical
political and religious uprising, that ravaged 17 Chinese
provinces and cost 20 million lives. The rebels rose against the tyranny of the
Manchus, supporting a program partly based on
Christian doctrines. Among their aims were public ownership of land and the
establishment of a self-reliant economy. Their slogans - to share property in
common - attracted many famine-stricken peasants, and the Taiping
ranks swelled to more than one million soldiers.
Under the leadership of Hung Hsiu-chuan
they captured
The Boxer Rebellion (1900)
The Boxer Rebellion was a peasant uprising that attempted to drive
all foreigners from
After
In 1900 an international force landed at Tientsin
and fought its way to
The
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Below are links to several pictures related to the Boxer Rebellion.