Rails, Zones and Bulbs
This man invented the light powered by electricity and then developed a whole system to run these lights.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This is what it meant for time to be standardized.
The Japanese city of Edo was renamed this in 1868.
What is Tokyo?
Under Japan's new constitution this is who made the policies for the country.
Who was a group of advisors to the emperor, known as the cabinet?
Before railroads changed the way people kept time, cities all over the world set their own clocks by looking at this.
What is the sun?
Railroads did this for travel.
What is it sped up travel?
Saigo Takamori, a famous samurai warrior, led a rebellion known as this.
What is the Satsuma Revolt?
Although Japan had an emperor, this group controlled the country.
What was the daimyo?
This man, a Canadian railroad engineer, suggested that it might be a good idea to divide thee world into 24 time zones.
Who was Sir Sanford Fleming?
This is what railways did for people.
What is it took people to cities they may not have settled in before?
The daimyo who helped the emperor regain his throne called this time period the..
What is the Meiji Restoration?
The daimyo brought experts for these nations to Japan.
What are France, America, and Great Britain?
This is how businessman would cross the US before the railroad was built.
What is taking a month-long journey by stagecoach or sail in a steamship all the way around South America?
This is what electricity did.
What is it made it possible for men to work after dark?
This is why Yoshinobu agreed to resign as shogun.
What is because he knew that a civil war would weaken Japan and make her even less able to stand up to the US and other countries?
The Satsuma Revolt lasted this long.
What is less than a year?
This happened at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869.
What is time became standardized?
Additional study note it was kept according to the same rules across the whole United States, and eventually across the world.
This is what time zones did.
What is divided the earth into 24 time zones, made it the same time inside each zone, and made it one hours difference between zones?
This is how the conscripts in the new Japanese army are different from the samurai.
During the Satsuma Revolt this is who the samurai warriors gathered under.
Who was Saigo Takamori?