After the fall of the shogunate, the a. hereditary rights of ...

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Question 1

The new leaders of the Meiji regime
 
  a. sought to eliminate all Western influence from their country.
  b. denied key administrative posts to modernizing samurai from the Sat-Cho group.
  c. planned to create a modern political system based on the Western model.
  d. celebrated the role of the samurai in past and future society.
  e. gave the emperor absolute power inasmuch as he was a divine descendent of the Sun Goddess.

Question 2

After the fall of the shogunate, the
 
  a. hereditary rights of the daimyo were strengthened.
  b. the mass of the rural population was transformed from indentured serfs into yeoman farmers.
  c. samurai quickly became impoverished.
  d. emperor now actually guided governmental activities, in sharp contrast to the status of his predecessors under the Tokugawa regime.
  e. last Tokugawa shogun became the permanent Prime Minister.

[Kedrick2014]

Answer 1

c

Answer 2

b

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