The new modernizing policies of the Meiji Restoration included the Group of answer choices retained the traditional warrior class system. extermination of the samurai with "assisted seppuku." restoration of the hereditary privileges of the daimyo. end of hereditary privileges and land titles for the daimyo. exile of the samurai.

The Meiji Restoration can be described, in a nutshell, a coup d'etat. Since the 17th century, Japan was isolated from the Western world, except for some of its countries such as Dutch. What becomes known as the Edo Period was a feudal moment in Japan, when the figure of the Emperor was just symbolic, his power was minimal. The major power was concentred in the Shogun (a military post), and the daimyos (feudal lords). The daimyos had several privileges, especially a considerable number of fertile lands and the possibility to left these lands for their descendants, creating almost a hereditary monarch. This situation begin to change in 1853 when four American vessels obliged Japan to open it's harbor to trade. If Japan didn't this, America would bombard it. The subsequent years were an opening borders process until that in 1868, the Shogunate and the daimyos were withdrawn from the power. The daimyos lose their privileges, and the Emperor returned to his power post.