The new leaders of the Meiji regime accomplished all of the following except
A. stripping the daimyo of their hereditary privileges.
B. giving key administrative posts to modernizing samurai from the Sat-Cho group.
C. modernizing samurai and giving them key posts in the new government.
D. establishing a bicameral legislature with a cabinet actually chosen by the oligarchs.
E. giving the emperor absolute power since he was a divine descendent of the Sun Goddess.
Answer: E
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