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Question 1

What year did United States warships arrive off the coast of Japan demanding trade?

Answer 1

1853

Question 2

What were the two main responses of Japanese leaders to the demand for trade?

Answer 2

• Resist giving up seclusion
• Learn from the foreigners

Question 3

What policy did Japan abandon in response to Western imperialism?

Answer 3

Isolation

Question 4

Who gained the office of shogun in 1603, ending a period of lawlessness in Japan?

Answer 4

Tokugawa leyasu

Question 5

What was the capital of Japan where the emperor lived during the Tokugawa period?

Answer 5

Kyoto

Question 6

What city served as the center of power under the Tokugawa shoguns?

Answer 6

Edo

Question 7

What system did the Tokugawa shoguns reimpose on Japan?

Answer 7

Centralized feudalism

Question 8

What significant action did the Tokugawa shoguns take in 1637 regarding foreign influence?

Answer 8

Closed Japan to foreigners

Question 9

What was Japan’s only window on the world during the Tokugawa period?

Answer 9

Nagasaki

Question 10

Which foreign nation was allowed limited trade with Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate?

Answer 10

The Dutch

Question 11

For how many years did Japan develop in isolation under the Tokugawa shogunate?

Answer 11

Almost 250 years

Question 12

What aspect of Japan’s economy expanded during its period of isolation?

Answer 12

Internal commerce

Question 13

Fill in the blank: The ________ Restoration marked Japan’s transformation into a modern industrial power.

Answer 13

Meiji

Question 14

What term refers to the large industrial conglomerates that emerged in Japan during the Meiji period?

Answer 14

Zaibatsu

Question 15

What was the term used to describe Japan’s society during the Meiji Restoration?

Answer 15

Homogeneous

Question 16

What conflict was fought between Japan and China in the late 19th century?

Answer 16

First Sino-Japanese War

Question 17

What war did Japan fight against Russia in 1904-1905?

Answer 17

Russo-Japanese War

Question 18

What was one of the objectives of the Meiji Restoration?

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To build an empire

Question 19

What legislative body was established during the Meiji Restoration?

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Diet

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Hardships Grow Economic growth

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however

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brought changes that put strains on the country.

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Daimyo suffered financial hardship because their

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wealth was in land. In a commercial economy

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money

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was needed. Daimyo had the heavy expense of

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maintaining households in both Edo and their own

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domains.

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Lesser samurai were unhappy

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too

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were no longer fighters. Many were government

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bureaucrats. Even though they were noble

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they

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lacked the money to live as well as urban merchants.

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Merchants in turn resented their place at the bottom

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of the social ladder. No matter how rich they were

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they had no political power. Peasants

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meanwhile

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suffered under heavy taxes.

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The government responded by trying to revive

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old ways

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emphasizing farming over commerce and

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praising traditional values. Efforts at reform failed.

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By the 1800s

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many groups were discontent and had

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little loyalty to the old system.

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IDENTIFY CAUSE AND EFFECT By the mid-

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1800s

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why did so many groups of people in Japan

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feel discontented?

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bitterly criticized the shogun for not taking a strong

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stand against the foreigners.

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Foreign pressure deepened the social and

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economic unrest. As the crisis worsened

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many

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young

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reform-minded samurai rallied around the

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emperor

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long regarded as a figurehead

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In 1867

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discontented daimyo and samurai led

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a revolt that unseated the shogun and "restored"

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the emperor

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Mutsuhito to power. He moved from

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Kyoto

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the old imperial capital

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in Edo

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which was renamed Tokyo

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capital." The emperor took the name Meiji (MAY jee)

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which means "enlightened rule."

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The Meiji Restoration The young emperor

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just

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15 years old

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began a long reign known as the Meiji

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Restoration. This period

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which lasted from 1868 to

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1912

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was a major turning point in Japanese history.

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The Meiji reformers

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who ruled in the emperor's

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name

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were determined to strengthen Japan against

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the West. Their goal was summarized in their motto

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A rich country, a strong military.

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The new leaders set out to study Western ways

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adapt them to Japanese needs

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and eventually

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protect Japan from having to give in to Western

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demands. In 1871

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members of the government

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The Opening of Japan

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While the shogun faced troubles at home

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disturbing

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news reached him from abroad. With alarm

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he heard

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of how the British had defeated China in the Opium

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War and how imperialists had forced China to sign

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unequal treaties. Japanese officials realized it would

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not be long before Western powers sought trading