Japan

• what did the US want

  to get supplies & coal from Japan, to protect US ships and sailors, to enter into official trade
• treaty of kanagawa

  1854 treaty between Japan and the US. Japan agreed to open two ports to American ships
• harris treaty


  The treaty that opened Japan for trade
• goals of the meji period

  rapid modernization, stand up to the west, increase ecomony, renegotiate unequal treaties
• eastern worldveiw vs western worldveiw
• dutch east india comapny


  formed in 1602 when many small dutch companies formed together and became best traders in europe. they sent 10000 workers to asian silk farms
• edo vs meji

  uneasy peace and isolation vs rapid modernization
• Edo, Meji, Both, Neither
• Learned about the outside world

  Meji
• human sacrifice was the key to happiness

  Neither
• class systems


  edo was simular to feudal system whilst meji gained slight social mobility
• meji worldveiw

  japan wanted to become a colonial power 💸
• restoration of imperial rule

  when they forced yoshinobu ( the last shogun) to step down and put the power back into emperor meji
• shogun vs emperor


  actual ruler of japan vs symbolic leader
• who forced japan to sign unequal treaties?

  russia, britian, france and the netherlands
• fill the blanks

  eastern morality vs western technology
• sakuma & yoshida


  both wanted to modernize japan but while sakuma worked with the bafuku, yoshida tried to overthrow them and got ☠