The End of Shogun Japan

The final Shogunate in Japan was the ...

• Kamakura Shogunate

• Tokugawa Shogunate

• Ashikaga Shogunate

On 8 July 1853, four black ships commanded by ______ of the United States Navy anchored at Edo Bay.

• Commodore Matthew Perry

• Commodore Matthew LeBlanc

• Commodore David Schwimmer

• Commodore Jennifer Aniston

He carried with him a letter from ________ written to the Emperor of Japan.

• His Mother

• The Shogun

• The President of the USA

Because Japan had been cut off from the outside world for so long, the Japanese had never seen ________ before.

• Steamships

• Americans

• Letters

Perry refused demands made by the Japanese to leave, and threatened them by ____________

• reminding them who he'd been sent by.

• waving the American flag at them.

• pointing the ships' cannons at Tokyo (Edo).

On 31 March 1854, after weeks of diplomatic talks, Japan signed a treaty with America known as the Treaty of ________

• Kamakura

• Versailles

• Magna Carta

• Kanagawa

The daimyo began to _________ the shogun who was, after all, supposed to suppress ‘foreign barbarians’

• love

• lose faith in

• tell jokes to

Political activists who started an anti-bakufu (anti-Shogun) movement ...

• Shu Shu

• Shi Shi

• Samurai

In 1867, shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu handed back power to Emperor ____________.

• Meiji

• Harold

• Ieyasu

• Tokugawa

How long did the isolation policy of Sakoku last?

• 200 years

• 300 years

• 100 years

• 150 years