The Opium Wars forced China to expand ports for trade. Following the first Opium War, which ended in 1842, five new Chinese treaty ports at Guangzhou (Canton), Shanghai, Xiamen (Amoy), Ningbo, and Fuzhou, where British merchants and their families could reside were opened. <span>A huge indemnity (compensation) was to be paid to the British government and merchants also follwoing the first War. F</span>ollowing the second War(1856–1860) <span>11 more treaty ports were opened.
At the end of the second War </span><span>the British and French captured Beijing.</span>
Individual rights were included in the Constitution because the writers of the Constitution wanted to protect the individual from their government and enshrine certain liberties and rights to make this process well defined. Following colonialism and the intrusion of the British Crown into many aspects of an individuals life the writers of the Constitution sought to prevent this from occurring in the soon to be formed Government of the United States. Enshrining individual rights was an essential goal of the Constitution.
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<span>The Constitution delegates some powers to the national government and reserves other powers to the states. This division of power is called
</span>D. Separation of powers<span>
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