Students will be able to: Analyze the key internal and external causes that led to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the start of the Meiji Restoration.Evaluate the political, social, and economic effects of the Meiji Restoration on Japan.Assess the global impact of Japan's rapid modernization, particularly its shift to imperialism.They should be able to answer these questions when they conclude: To what extent was the Meiji Restoration a "restoration" of the old order versus a fundamental "