Modernization: US and Japan

Read pages 83 through 90 in your text.  As you read, complete the following map details on student pages 35 and 36:

(page 35) - Label the town in Utah where the two railroads met.
                - Label the town at the end of the rail line on the Union Pacific end.
                - Draw the path of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad on                 your map.
(page 36) - Label Japan.
                - Label the Pacific Ocean.
                - Label Tokyo.
                - Label the Sea of Japan.

Answer the following questions:

1) How long did a railroad journey across the whole US take?
2) Before railroads, how did people set their clocks?
3) Explain what Sir Sandford Fleming did and why in a solid paragraph.
4) What part of the lightbulb did Thomas Edison have trouble with?
5) After the bulb, what did Edison and his helpers need to develop?
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1) When Tokugawa became shogun, what two things did he try to do?
2) When Tokugawa resigned, who took the throne of Japan?
3) What two groups of Japanese fought a civil war and who won?
4) List the three things the noblemen, who really ran the country at this point, did to help Japan become more "western."
5) What did giving up their swords mean to the samurai?
6) When did Japan get its new constitution and after what other country's was is modeled?
7) What three parts did the Japanese government have?
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