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Bakumatsu

The Bakumatsu were the final years of the Edo period in Japan, before the Meiji Restoration. Can you answer these ten questions of roughly increasing difficulty about the Bakumatsu period?
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Which American commodore arrived with the Black Ships in 1853?
Perry
Which slogan became popular among anti-shogunate activists during the Bakumatsu?
Sonnō Jōi
Which Tokugawa tairō was assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident?
Ii Naosuke
Which domain joined Satsuma in the August 18 Coup against Chōshū radicals?
Aizu
Which special Tokugawa police force became famous after the Ikedaya Incident?
Shinsengumi
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Which Chōshū leader organized the Kiheitai militia and later led the Battle of Nomite coup?
Takasugi Shinsaku
Which British trader secretly supplied arms to Chōshū through Satsuma mediation?
Thomas Glover
What was the name of the proposal by which Tokugawa Yoshinobu returned governing authority to the emperor?
Taisei Hōkan
Which domain switched sides during the Battle of Toba-Fushimi after the Imperial banner appeared?
Tsu
Which former shogunate admiral became president of the Republic of Ezo?
Enomoto Takeaki
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