Question

How did the tokugawa shogunate fall into decline and crisis?

Answer 1

Reasons for the Fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate are:
*Political
*Lack of Meritocracy
*Inept Leadership
*Conflict Between Fundamentalists and Realists
*Ineffective Reforms
*Tempo Reforms, Early 1940's
*Economic
*Financial Stringency
*Failure to Tax Growing Sectors of Economy
*Daimyo Disadvantage in Osaka Rice Trade
*Social
*Samurai Discontentment
*Mistreatment by Daimyo
*Jealous of Gono and Merchant
*Frustrated at Lack of Meritocracy
*Rise of Gono and Merchant Class
*Ideological Changes
* Mito School and Kokugaku emphasis on Imperial Divinity
*Peasant Uprisings
* Osaka Uprising led by Oshio Heihachiro, 1837

*The Foreign Crisis
*Arrival of Commodore Perry, July 3 1853
*Kanegawa Treaty of Friendship, 1854
*Harris Treaty, 1858
*Decline of Bakufu Authority
*Union of Court and Bakufu
*Daimyo visiting Kyoto, 1863
*Abe Masahiro's Policy of Consulation, 1853
*Hotto Masayoshi's Consultation of Court re: Harris Treaty, 1858
*Choshu-Satsuma Alliance
*Shishi Activism
*Choshu Shimonoseki Strait Incident, 1863
*Foreign Attack on Choshu, 1864
*Choshu defeat of Bakufu Army, 1866
*Meiji Restoration, 1867-8

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