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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 4
The Boxer Rebellion
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Concession
Intervention
Indemnity
Connect concession, intervention, and indemnity to different stages of a conflict. Why should an explanation of sovereignty examine the settlement as well as the arrival of foreign forces?
Read the situation.
The Boxer uprising grew in northern China amid hardship and resentment of foreign influence. Boxers attacked foreigners and Chinese Christians, and elements of the Qing government supported the movement. Chinese society was not one unified bloc: people faced different dangers and held different positions.
02 Organize the information.
A fictional local recovery account
An invented town has 50 repair units. It must use 20 for water access and 15 for a damaged public building. This is not the Boxer indemnity.
How many units remain?
Answer: __________________ units
Show the calculation, then explain what the result tells you in this model.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 4
What does the evidence show?
The Boxer Rebellion
03 Follow the evidence.
Sovereignty after settlement
Claim: “The settlement increased outside powers’ leverage over China.”
Select all settlement provisions that directly support the claim.
The protocol allows foreign military presence.
The settlement imposes a large financial obligation.
An intervention appeal states a goal of protecting foreign civilians but does not specify postwar terms.
A trade table describes foreign commerce before the uprising rather than obligations imposed by the settlement.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
The protection claim
A government says its intervention protected people. Records also show occupation and looting.
Which analysis is strongest?
Assess the stated protective aim alongside documented actions and consequences for different groups.
A protective statement proves every action was protective.
Evidence of looting proves nobody was ever rescued.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a cable analysis explaining two causes or pressures, one action by the Boxers, and one consequence of intervention. Evaluate a settlement term in relation to sovereignty.