In China, food shortages, corruption in government, and high rates of opium addiction led to <u>"The Taiping Rebellion". </u>Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864): Causes to poor conditions in China after opium wars led to a rebellion of one million peasants.
Causes of the rebellion included:
Famine and food shortages due to a population boom
The key point of the Doctrine was to separate the influence in which The United States and European powers would have. Europe would have no intervention within the Western Hemisphere and likewise the United States would not become entangled in European affairs.
