The End
This one day event in 1837 made a dramatic impression signifying the end of the Tokugawa reign.
What is a peasant uprising?
Were in charge of storing rice and went for one of the lowest classes to one of the higher.
Who are the merchants?
The end of the Edo Period is called this.
What is the Late Tokugawa Shogonate.
These two things hit Japan hard, which led to the uprising against officials in Osaka in 1837.
What are famines and natural disasters?
Along with the samurai, the peasants also needed money for this.
What is pay for high taxes?
The US started making inroads in the Asia-Pacific region starting in China with this event.
What is the First Opium War?
Came to rely on merchants and artisans for consumer goods.
Who are the Samurai?
The main reason for the decline in the Tokugawa.
What is poor government management?
These two things resulted in 20 great famines between 1675 and 1837.
What are drought and crop shortages?
In the late 18th century, there were mass protests over these two things.
What are taxes and food shortages?
This man sailed into Edo Bay with what in July 1846.
Who is Commodore James Biddle with 2 warships?
Samurai did this which was against their strict social code in order to survive. This was what caused them to go against their code.
What is married merchant daughters, and they were too proud to take many of the jobs available?
Resulted in the farmer becoming the ultimate producer.
What is restricting families' accumulation of wealth?
There were this many famines during the Tokugawa period of which this many were serious and widespread?
What are 154 and 21?
Newly landless families became this.
What are tenant farmers?
Rapid industrialization of the West during the 18th century created the first of these between Japan and the US, in these two areas.
What is a material gap of technology and armaments?
They gained wealth and power because of this, and did specifically this.
What is convert rice into cash and credit?
The name of the policy that resulted in the farmer becoming the ideal person in society.
What is "back to the soil policy?
This fraction of the population died of starvation during the Tokugawa period.
What is one-third of the population?
As rural peasants moved to the cities and the fortunes of well-to-do families declined, others accumulated land creating this.
What is a new farming class?
This is why the samurai were looking for ways to survive?
What is the Daimyo were nearing bankruptcy?
These were 4 things that improved in society under the Tokugawa.
what are crop production, transportation, housing, food, entertainment, and more leisure time?
A turning point for peasants and the lower classes in this period was that this was high for a preindustrial society. As high as this in the city of Edo.
What is literacy rate and 80%?