{"id":5964,"date":"2025-08-26T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:55:03","slug":"how-was-the-meiji-restoration-achieved-the-charter-oath-and-the-meiji-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/how-was-the-meiji-restoration-achieved-the-charter-oath-and-the-meiji-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"How was the Meiji Restoration achieved? > The Charter Oath and the Meiji Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>How was the Meiji Restoration achieved?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ib_meiji\/3_How_was_transition_achieved\/1_Charter_Oath_Meiji_Constitution.docx\">The Charter Oath and the Meiji Constitution<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1866, the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance united two powerful domains against the Tokugawa. The shogunate then launched the Second Choshu Expedition, intending to crush the alliance; instead, the modernized Choshu forces won a decisive victory, exposing the shogunate&#8217;s military weakness. Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi then died, and this provoked the Alliance to seize the political initiative: the January 1868 coup in Kyoto formally abolished the shogunate and ushered in the Meiji Restoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/meiji\/\">full scheme of work on the Meiji Restoration<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How was the Meiji Restoration achieved? The Charter Oath and the Meiji Constitution In 1866, the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance united two powerful domains against the Tokugawa. The shogunate then launched the Second Choshu Expedition, intending to crush the alliance; instead, the modernized Choshu forces won a decisive victory, exposing the shogunate&#8217;s military weakness. Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/how-was-the-meiji-restoration-achieved-the-charter-oath-and-the-meiji-constitution\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/thumnail.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1yc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}