What can Japan's rise as an imperial power in the early twentieth century be directly attributed to? O Russia's threats of military action against Manchuria after the Boxer Rebellion.
O The decision by Japan's Meiji government to modernize and industrialize in the late 1800s.
The inability of China to adopt Western traditions and industrialize after the Opium Wars.
O The decision by Japan's Meiji government to close its ports to foreign trade and expel all foreigners.

Russia's threats to military action against Manchuria after the boxer rebellion.

Explanation: Japan won the war against russia positively increasing the status japan's empire had.

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many people believed they were convicted solely because they were anarchists.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.