The Meiji restoration of japan

Mathew Perry "bullied" the Japanese by showing the United States "military might". He dropped an anchor 26 miles off the coast Tokyo and the Japanese were amazed by the movement of the ships with no sails.Mathew Perry arrived with no sails on his ships to prove their technological improvbements. The Japanese were impressed and on March 31,1854 the treaty between Japan and the United States was signed. After the Meiji Restoration Japan became a new formed government and many changes were made. They were no longer a feudal government and the emperor even founded a school of elementary education. Japan is known to be a archipelago. This is a group of many islands in a large body os water.