Imperialism: Japan

in the early 19th century, at the end of the feudal period, Japan was ruled by a(n) _____________, or supreme military dictator.

• Emperor

• Shogun

• Daimyo

• Samurai

The most powerful of all of the shogun families was the

• Tokugawa

• Meiji

• Kanagawa

• Mutsuhito

Prior to the arrival of the American fleet, led by Cdre. Matthew Perry, the main policy of the Japanese Shogunate was on of...

• Protectionism

• Militarism

• Imperialism

• Isolationism

What event made the Shogunate so afraid of the Americans?

• Cdre. Perry threatened to attack Japan with gunboats.

• The United States had the largest Navy in the Pacific.

• The defeat of the Chinese by the British is the Opium Wars.

• The rise of American backed rebels in support of the Emperor.

Because they had fallen so far behind the west, technologically, the Japanese were forces to sign what treaty in 1854?

• Treaty of Kanagawa

• Treaty of Kyoto

• Treaty of Meiji

• Treaty of Tokogawa

Following the humiliation of the Treaty of Kanagawa internal power struggles led to an overthrow of the Shogun and power bring restored to...

• the people.

• the Samurai.

• the Emperor.

• the military.

The Japanese Emperor Mutsuhito began rapidly modernizing Japan, including building modern industrial factories and a modern military. This period in reform was known as

• the Meiji Restoration.

• the Japanese Enlightenment.

• the Mutsuhito Reformation.

• the Mutsuhito Restoration.

One of the main political reforms was the creation of an elected legislature and the adoption of a constitution. These were both modeled on what western nation?

• The United States.

• Great Britain

• Germany

• France

How did the Japanese manage to industrialize as quickly as they did.

• The Japanese government invested heavily in education to train engineers and scientists.

• The Japanese government used tax money to build the factories and then sold them to wealthy families.

• The Japanese government took out massive loans from Britain and the United States to build factories.

• The Japanese government force the people to work for the government without choice to build the factories.

Although the Japanese constitution eliminated differences in social class as the law applied, what allowed inequality of persist under the Meiji government?

• Former nobility and samurai were able to keep their titles and hand them down.

• Former nobility and samurai went from being wealthy feudal lords to being wealthy factory owners.

• Former nobility and samurai were given preferential positions in the new government that they exploited for their own profit.

• Former nobility and samurai were still the leaders of the Japanese military and could use it to oppress the common people.