The Rise of Modern Japan

Question 1

Which of these events occurred first?

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the Tokugawa Shogunate rule

Question 2

The Meiji Era changed Japanese society by

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modernizing the armed forces, investing in factories, and establishing universal education.

Question 3

How was Japan easily able to defeat China in the Sino-Japanese War?

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Japan’s military was better trained and equipped.

Question 4

Why did Meiji leaders expand Japan’s military and heavily invest in industrialization?

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They wanted to limit western influence in Japan.

Question 5

Because Japan felt disrespected by the provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth, it would most likely lead Japan to

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lack of trust in the US and future negotiations with it.

Question 6

In which ways did the Meiji Restoration modernize Japanese government and society? Select three answers.It appointed the emperor as head of the government.It created a democracy to model that of the US.It abolished feudalism and the samurai.It created a constitutional monarchy.It opened technology schools and universities.

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It appointed the emperor as head of the government.; It abolished feudalism and the samurai.; It created a constitutional monarchy.

Question 7

What started the Russo-Japanese War?

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Japan launched a surprise attack on the city of Port Arthur in Russia.

Question 8

How would a government legally take control of another territory to add it to its own?

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Annex it.

Question 9

The tsar was quick to agree to negotiate a peace treaty to end the Russo-Japanese War mainly because

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Russia was fighting a strong military from afar.

Question 10

Which is a true statement about the Treaty of Kanagawa?

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It was an unequal treaty that favored the US.

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