Japan used to be an isolated country as it's borders were closed to everyone. After they opened the borders, they started developing the country by accepting new technologies and anything similar that was considered to be beneficial for the country's well being. They also started to perfect things that they adopted which led to new inventions and advancements.
Well even though im not writing the two paragraphs for you, Im going yo give you info about one of the cases so that you can do the paragraphs. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Gibbons v. Ogden is considered a landmark supreme court case on the issue of the Interstate Commerce Clause. Aaron Ogden was given an exclusive license to operate a shipping business within the State of New York. He sued a man named Thomas Gibbons, who ran a competing shipping business between New Jersey and New York City, claiming that Gibbon's operations in the State of New York were illegal.<span>The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of Thomas Gibbons. Hope this works good for you. </span>
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General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position on Yorktown, Virginia. Two years later the Treaty of Paris made the American independence official