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Meiji Restoration in Japan

Quiz by April MacNamee

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  • Q1
    Japan under Tokugawa Shogunate shut itself off from the world to prevent European influence
    Isolationism
    30s
  • Q2
    ruling family in Japan that held the actual power (not emperor) for over 200 years
    Tokugawa Shogunate
    30s
  • Q3
    Type of political structure under Tokugawa: strict class distinctions , social order, and land ownership (decentralized political system)
    Feudalism
    30s
  • Q4
    Owners of the large estates in Japan during feudalism
    Daimyo
    30s
  • Q5
    warriors loyal to Daimyo, followed code of Bushido
    Samurai
    30s
  • Q6
    U.S. Naval officer sent to Japan in 1853 to deliver a letter demanding Japan open their ports to western trade
    Commodore Matthew Perry
    30s
  • Q7
    mountainous archipelago (chain of islands) in the Pacific Ocean; irregular coastline has many harbors, lacks many natural resources
    Japan's Geography
    30s
  • Q8
    unequal Treaty where Japan agreed to open 2 ports to the US
    Treaty of Kanagawa
    30s
  • Q9
    Power is restored to the emperor and Japan begins to westernize and modernize
    Meiji Restoration
    30s
  • Q10
    when a stronger nation takes over a smaller/weaker nation- Japan does this because they lack natural resources
    Imperialism
    30s
  • Q11
    Peninsula nation near Russia and China that becomes under control of Japan
    Korea
    30s
  • Q12
    Key characteristics of the Meiji Restoration
    weak & corrupt
    modernization & westernization
    isolation & feudalism
    communist & industrial
    30s

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