Pg.681 # 1&3

Pg 681 (1&3)

1.)Meiji Restoration- Change when a group of samurai overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate and restored the emperor to power.

Diet: Japan’s two-house national legislature.

Sino-Japanese War- War between China and Japan over Korea in 1894, resulting in a Japanese victory.

Treaty of Shimonoseki-1895 treaty forced China to recognize independence of Korea and make concessions to Japan.

Mongkut- A king who ascended to power in 1851 and was particularly good at such diplomacy. He studied Western ideas to understand his enemies and help modernize his country

Liliuokalani-Hawaii’s Queen who didn’t want foreigners to control Hawaii. She tried to change the treaty that allowed them to stay.

Emilio Aguinaldo- Led the Filipinos in a fight for independence.

3.) Finding the Main Idea:

a. The British system of education did have a powerful impact. The classes were mostly taught in English. The students mostly learned about Western ideas that were based on democracy and socialism.

b. The government bought new factory machinery from the Japanese and passed laws to encourage private citizens to start businesses. In order for them to learn more and bring ideas, they were sent to western schools and learn from them.

c. In Hawaii the united States didn’t have to go to war to conquer the Hawaiians. They went and started huge sugarcane and pineapple plantations. A few years later they over threw the queen and the United States took over. In Philippines it was different. Spain and the United States went to war in the Philippines. Some of the Philippines didn’t want to be ruled by foreigners so they used the guerrilla warfare against the United States and went to war for 3 hard years but the United states defeated the Philippines.