Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: D - The Boxer Rebellion took place in China from 1899 to 1901 when the Qing Empire and a Chinese organization called the Righteous Harmony Society tried to expel foreign diplomats and missionaries from the country. The Eight-Nation Alliance of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States all had commercial interests in China and were not interested in giving them up. The Boxers feared that Christian missionaries would use their position in the country to influence Chinese Christians. However, the Boxers failed to realize how radically outnumbered they would be if the eight countries dispatched troops to China, which is what happened. The Eight-Nation Alliance executed all remaining Boxers, stationed troops in Beijing, and demanded payment from China that exceeded the country’s annual income (to be paid over four decades). Alliance troops cruelly looted villages, raped women, and acted with what can only be considered barbarism, even by the standards of the time. In the United States, the conflict inspired an impassioned argument against America’s burgeoning imperial interests. For China, the event was ultimately a precursor to the Chinese Revolution.