According to the reading, how did Japanese leaders define what it meant to be a modern nation?

Having a modern military and being an industrialized power. To summarize it was like they wanted to copy the U.S. in terms of economic success and military power.

Explanation:

I don't know what the reading said but this is what I got.

july 1861 here you go hope it

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.