🏛️ CATEGORY 1: GOVERNMENT & POWER (SOVEREIGN COUNCIL)
This group made final decisions for New France and represented the King of France.
➡️ Who was the Sovereign Council?
These people farmed the land and paid rent to seigneurs.
➡️ Who were the habitants?
This leader was restored to power during the Meiji Restoration.
➡️ Who was the Emperor of Japan?
This country forced Japan to open its ports in the 1850s.
➡️ Who was the United States?
This role enforced laws and controlled the military in New France.
➡️ Who was the Governor?
This land system divided farms into long narrow strips along rivers.
➡️ What was the seigneurial system?
This group lost power when the shogunate ended.
➡️ Who were the shoguns, daimyo, and samurai?
This American naval officer led the arrival of the “Black Ships.”
➡️ Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?
This position focused on trade, settlement, and economic growth rather than warfare.
➡️ Who was the Intendant?
Why were farms built in long narrow strips instead of square plots?
➡️ Why did this give everyone access to water, transportation, and fertile land?
Why did Japan end the Tokugawa shogunate?
➡️ Why did leaders believe it weakened Japan and limited modernization?
Why did Japan fear Western imperialism?
➡️ Why had other Asian countries been colonized?
Why did France create the Sovereign Council instead of letting colonists govern themselves?
➡️ Why did France want to maintain control and protect its economic and political interests?
How did the seigneurial system benefit France more than the habitants?
➡️ How did it ensure food production, loyalty, and control for France?
How did industrialization change where people lived and worked?
➡️ How did people move to cities and factory jobs?
How did foreign pressure act as a trigger for the Meiji Restoration?
➡️ How did it reveal Japan’s military and technological weakness?
How does the structure of the Sovereign Council show that New France was not democratic?
➡️ How did power come from the King of France, not the people living in the colony?
Would you describe the seigneurial system as fair? Defend your answer.
➡️ How was it beneficial for survival but unequal in power and opportunity?
Was modernization a choice or a necessity for Japan? Defend your answer.
➡️ How was it necessary to avoid colonization?
Explain why isolation became dangerous rather than protective.
➡️ How did it prevent Japan from adapting to global change?