Question

Select all that apply.

The years of the Meiji Restoration are characterized by:
efforts to industrialize Japan
the modernization of Japan's army and navy
armed uprisings and civil war
the acceptance of Western ideas

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

1 and 3?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The Meiji Restoration was a political and social revolution in Japan in 1866-69, which ended the power of the Tokugawa shogun and returned the Emperor to a central position in Japanese politics and culture. It is named for Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor, who served as the figurehead for the movement.
Background to the Meiji Restoration:

When Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States steamed in to Edo Bay (Tokyo Bay) in 1853 and demanded that Tokugawa Japan allow foreign powers access to trade, he unwittingly started a chain of events that led to Japan's rise as a modern imperial power.

Japan's political elites realized that the U.S. and other countries were ahead of Japan in terms of military technology, and (quite rightly) felt threatened by western imperialism. After all, mighty Qing China had been brought to its knees by Britain fourteen years earlier in the First Opium War, and would soon lose the Second Opium War as well.

Rather than suffer a similar fate, some of Japan's elites sought to close the doors even tighter against foreign influence, but the more foresighted began to plan a modernization drive. They felt that it was important to have a strong Emperor at the center of Japan's political organization to project Japanese power and fend off western imperialism.
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/japan/f/What-Was-the-Meiji-Restoration.htm

Answer 6

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