What were the reasons for the 1911 Revolution
- Created by: Isabel Steele
- Created on: 08-10-14 21:29
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- What were the reasons for the 1911 Revolution?
- Political
- Regent Chun sacked able men like Yuan Shikai & replaced them with his fellow conservitives & relatives
- Resentment of Manchus for being non-Han (eg. pigtails) & for bding wask by allowing foreign ancessions
- Sun Yatsen campained for 3 Principles & tried to overthrow Machus 10 times
- Desire for a more modern state or to withstand foreigners
- eg. Japan
- abandon Confucian philosophy
- Economic
- long term hardship of peasant life
- Bad harvests caused widespread discontent
- Taxes increased to pay for the modernisation
- New Army
- Poor compensation for railway owners
- Resentment of Foreigners
- Heightened by the suppression of the Boxers & new plans to nationalise railways using foreign money/ techniques
- Opium
- Christian missionaries
- Territorial concessions
- Hong Kong
- Trade privlages
- Political
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