What Instigated the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China

question 49

Multiple Choice

What instigated the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China?

• A) The Boxers, a secret Chinese nationalist society, were opposed to Western influences and perpetrated attacks on European missionaries, merchants, and soldiers.
• B) British, French, German, and Russian companies, which were interested in overtaking the paper industry in China, provoked the Chinese into war with them.
• C) The discovery of oil reserves in Mongolia provoked a civil war between the Chinese imperial government and Mongolian guerillas.
• D) Japanese agents aroused Chinese workers to strike and then revolt against employers.
• E) British agents who wished to maintain Hong Kong's independence engineered this revolt to weaken the Chinese government.

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