HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Admiral Matthew Perry landing in Tokyo with warships
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The Boxer Rebellion
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Queen Liliuokalani being overthrown
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The Sepoy Mutiny
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Detailed explanation-1: -Perry, in full Matthew Calbraith Perry, (born April 10, 1794, South Kingston, R.I., U.S.-died March 4, 1858, New York City), U.S. naval officer who headed an expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1852, President Millard Fillmore ordered Commodore Matthew C. Perry to lead an expedition to secure Japanese trade and access to Japan’s ports for American ships. Perry’s fleet, the Susquehanna, Mississippi, Plymouth, and Saratoga, carried 400 sailors and arrived in Edo Bay, today’s Tokyo Bay, on July 8, 1853.
Detailed explanation-3: -On March 31, 1854, the first treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. The Treaty was the result of an encounter between an elaborately planned mission to open Japan and an unwavering policy by Japan’s government of forbidding commerce with foreign nations.