a small group of wealthy families known as an aristocracy was at the center of early Japanese society. True or False?​

True

Explanation:

Japan operated a very strong aristocratic government during the early Japanese period with the aristocracy controlling Japanese society even though they only comprised of very few families.

These families would sometimes fight against each other in order to gain more control in the empire even though they would keep the emperor safe. They would then use the emperor as a mere figurehead who wouldn't control much to give themselves legitimacy.

d

explanation:

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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