What did the meiji reformers want to retain, despite their quest for modernization?

Traditional values.

Explanation:

The Meiji Restoration, which took place in 1868, was the process of overthrowing the shogunate and restoring power to the Japanese imperial family. This process resulted in the development and economic modernization of Japan from the late nineteenth century, transforming the nation into a regional power.

An important point of the meiji era was the reformulation of education, aimed at ensuring integration with the new government for the new generations and aimed at maintaining traditional Japanese values. Thus, teaching was used as a tool to transmit nationalist principles and to implement the cult of the Emperor's personality, which became known as State Shinto. The Emperor was seen as the incarnation of the goddess Amaterasu, goddess of the Sun of Shinto, a traditional Japanese religion.

union blockade

explanation:

the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.

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