The Opium War

The Opium war started because the Chinese started a anti-opium campaign. They did not want the Englishmen to trade opium in china anymore because it was damaging their economy because the china men would trade all its silver & gold for opium. The government didn't want to give all there silver & gold away, if the opium wasn't being used in a good manner. So when the Chinese started to ban opium selling in china, the British took that ass offense & they also took it as offense when they send a letter to the queen about the illegal opium selling in England. So then the British thought that was immediate war. the Opium wars was named after opium because it was basically about how china didn't want opium to be sold in their country anymore. They saw opium as a threat to society & that's why they wanted it to stop. The Opium War was also the first drug war in the history of the world.