The End of Isolation and Adaptation

1. Using the graphic organizer below, record the factors that motivated Japan to end its isolation. Record the outside factors in the left-hand column and the inside pressures in the right-hand column. Use the information in chapter 15. You may also want to take a look at chapter 14 for additional insight into the inside pressures. You should have at LEAST 6 points for each side. Please feel free to list more! /12

Outside Factors / Inside Pressures
Example: Force: Perry sailed into UragaHarbour with 977 men and 66 guns / Example: Japan’s knowledge of other European interactions: Wanted to avoid being another China.

2. How does Manifest Destiny help to explain Perry’s mission to Japan? /2

3. Read the Treaty of Kanagawa in the link below. There is also a shorter version of this on page 329 of your text. /6

  1. What privileges does this article give to the United States?
  2. Why would this article be beneficial from the American perspective?
  3. What does it suggest about the American attitude toward Japan?

4. Identify the 3 MAIN strategies that Perry used in dealing with the Japanese. Why were they successful??? /5

5. How do you feel the Japanese viewed the white flags that Perry gave them? /2

6. What does Meiji mean? /1
7. Complete the chart below to show five changes that happened during the Meiji Restoration and the effect each had on the lives of Japanese people. /5

Change / Effect on Japanese People
Moving the emperor from Kyoto to Tokyo / Stronger allegiance to the emperor
Stronger feeling of being a nation

8.There were many changes that took place at the end of Japan’s isolation. However, in other cases, change was gradual. Choose ONE aspect of Japanese life that changed and ONE aspect of Japanese life that stayed the same after the Meiji period. In a complete organizer (web, chart, point form list, etc.) (one for each) explain each aspect and the reason behind each. You might choose education, government, technology, others!! /10

9. Study the Five Charter Oath on page 338 and answer the following questions. /3

  1. Restate each of the terms of the Oath in your own words.
  2. Which of the terms demonstrate a move to a more democratic government and society?
  3. Which of the terms do you find vague or confusing? Do you think that they would have been clear to the Japanese? Explain.
  1. Create a web using your own words and pictures, if you like, to identify the characteristics of Japanese culture that allowed industrialization to happen in a space of 30 years. /5
  2. Explore the big idea!! Using the information on page 349 of your text and complete the Industrialization web and answer question 1 part a and b in the “Big Idea”. /5