Western Expansionism

The pressure of Caucasian expandingism urged the US government to find a way to remove Native American from its fertile land. Inspired by this pressure, it fulfilled the promise of the campaign to open the land of India for settlement, Andrew Jackson promoted Congress's "banishment bill". The law allows the government to negotiate treaties with various Native American tribes, pay for their land, transfer them to the western land, and support that tribe for one year after removal.

Western expansionism continued, but in the first half of the 19th century it fired at a slow speed. Britain joined their territory in India, France strengthened their oil in Algeria and the Western column forced China and Japan to increase trade with the outside world. Then in the last few decades of the nineteenth century the long history of expansion in the western region eventually brought unprecedented plundering of land in the era of imperialism and the history of mankind. The graph below shows how many lands and populations the Western countries added to the empire from 1871 to 1900. UK - 25 million square miles and 66 million people, France - 5 million square miles and 26 million people, Germany - 1 million square miles and 13 million people, 900,000 square miles in Belgium and 13 million people. '1 Italy, USA, Netherlands also acquired

Japan's response to Western expansionists is a modernization project (often called Meiji Restoration (1868)) designed to bring the country to the west. The Meiji government's main measures are promotion of industry, establishment of modernization army under central control, and development of universal education. The focus of Meiji citizens, the loyalty of the National Assembly and the army are the resurgence of the Meiji Emperor. The myth of the sacred pedigree of the Imperial family and Shinto - it is a religious ceremony that needs to be remade in the times of the present age - was promoted by the state to strengthen the mental authority of the emperor. The new mass education system educates the children that the Japanese belong to the same family and all come from the same ancestor. However, the new nation-state is based on quasi-Western governments and administrative systems created by economic, political and social reforms.

From the 19th century to the current historical investigation of Japan, this process includes Japan's constructive response to the Western economic expansionism, the formation of modern countries, the industrialization of Japan, the development of mass society, the Pacific War, the occupation of the United States , And the postwar economy. Miracle, and the status of Japan in today 's world. There are teaching materials, textbooks, memoirs, autobiography and so on. Course requirements: Hourly test, paper (main source), quiz and final exam