HIST 1708 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Tokugawa Shogunate, Millard Fillmore, Honshu
Document Summary
The fall of the tokugawa shogunate domestic crises in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Tenmei famine, 1782-85 northern honshu hardest hit bad weather, crop failures, rampant starvation. Tenpo famine, 1833-37 again, northern honshu hardest hit bad weather, crop failures(yields only 1/3 of normal) 1834-40: almost half of all province show population decreases of 5% or more government inequity in giving famine aid. Riots, protests, and rebellions peasant protests increase in times of hardship urban protests over high commodity prices. Oishi heihachiro"s rebellion, 1837 low-ranking samurai in osaka sympathizes with urban poor leads a popular rebellion against corrupt shogunal o cials. Russian expansion in the far northeast in the late 18th century shogunate begins reinforcing northern border(ezo) Britain in the 1810s-20s repeated attempts to establish trade with japan in early 19th century rebu ed. Britain wages the rst opium war in china in 1839-42, subjects china to "unequal treaties"
