Definitions
national isolation policy restricting foreign trade and foreign travel.
Sakoku or closed country
In this year Perry returned after his first visit and to set up the Treaty of Kanagawa.
1854
The prince's age when he became the emperor
14
the emperor moved from Kyoto to this city
Tokyo
Before the Meiji period this was the name of Tokyo
Edo
Military commander holding absolute authority over government and land in the 17th and 19th centuries
Shogun
The main purpose of the Treaty of Kanagawa
To open Japanese ports to American ships
The year the new period started after the Shogunate
1867
The group that rebelled against the emperor in 1877 because of losing their privileges
the samurais (Satsuma rebellion)
Matthew Parry's rank as a sailor
commodore
Warrior elite, administrators, and sole weapon holders.
samurai
Unintended consequences of the Treaty of Kanagawa
Domestic inflation and rapid industrialization and military reform to defend Japan
This compulsory service helped to create a unified national identity, with devotion to the Emperor.
military service
Three things the streets have changed in the cities during the Meiji Period
Paved streets, gaslights, brick buildings
The name of diplomacy used by America to achieve the Kanagawa Treaty
Gunboat diplomacy
Viewed as profiting from others, despite gaining wealth, viewed as the lowest social class in the Tokugawa period
merchants
the causes of 1830s peasant uprisings and urban riots
crop failures and subsequent famine
system of government where the emperor serves as the symbolic head of state, while actual political and law-making power belongs to an elected parliament and government.
constitutional / parliamentary monarchy
The major product factories with harsh conditions and female labour
Silk mills
Land ownership structured political power in Japan and Europe
feudalism
the name of lower-ranking samurai's radical political groups to restore the emperor
shishi
The social group effected by fixed rice stipends and had to rely on loans from mertchants by the 19th c
samurai
the main political goal behind Japan's rapid internal modernisation
To build national strength and avoid colonisation by Western imperial powers.
This compulsory institution fostered national pride and literacy.
universal education
the construction connecting Tokyo and Yokohama from 1872
railway