The Meiji government’s “emulation of foreign ways” was most directly a response to which of the following nineteenth-century developments? (A) The Qing Empire forcing Japan to accept tributary relations

(B) Western states forcing Japan to open itself to trade

(C) The Qing Empire requiring Japan to make territorial concessions following the Sino-Japanese War

(D) Western states requiring Japan to accept Western advisers at the imperial court following the Opium Wars

Which of the following statements about the economic consequences of the civil war is not accurate. a. inflation caused prices to rise by 80% in the north. b. because southern farms cannot process enough food for everyone in the south the union navy allowed food shipments from britain. c. to pay for all of the food supplies and arrangements that were necessary for the union army congress instituted an income tax. d. business boomed in the north as factories and farms always had a market for their products.