MW Ch 13 Test Review

What is a homogenous society?

• Japan's long period of rapid industrialization

• the Japanese society

• powerful banking and business families

• People who share a common language and culture

What is the term for a landholding warrior lord?

• diet

• daimyo

• Zaibatsu

• shogun

What was one cause of discontent in Tokugawa Japan?

• shoguns had reimposed centralized feudalism

• merchants had too much political power

• the government reduced peasant taxes

• many daimyo were making too much money

What is a shogun?

• weapon used in Japan

• master in martial arts

• emperor

• supreme military dictator

What demand did the US make on Japan in 1853?

• to lower taxes on US imports

• to open its ports to trade and diplomatic contacts

• to support the US attack on China

• to stop trading Chinese opium

One reason Japan became an imperialist power was to do what?

• strengthen Japan

• prevent invasion from Korea

• obtain basic resources

• keep foreigners out

The Meiji reformers want to do what?

• strengthen Japan

• discard Western methods

• allow samurai to vote

• keep foreigners out

Which countries made up French Indochina?

• Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

• Vietnam and Indonesia

• India and China

Siam remained independent partly because its rulers _________?

• did not accept unequal treaties

• understood Western power

• sought protection from China

• did not modernize

What is the term that describes powerful banking families in Japan?

• Zaibatsu

• Diet

• Tokyo

• homogenous society