impetus

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Impetus by: Lucas Sencio


 * > Name: || Lucas Sencio ||
 * > Word: || Impetus ||
 * > Source: || The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot, "Empire Emerging", Korea, 59. ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || stimulation or encouragement resulting in increased activity ||
 * > Definition URL: || http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impetus ||
 * > Context Sentences: || "After it became clear that the Seoul had no interest in reaching a deal, Rear Admiral Rogers had no choice but to sail away on July 3, 1871, no treaty in hand. The Taewongun claimed that the "barbarians" had been repulsed, but but the ease with which the Americans had destroyed Korea's most formidable fortifications gave added **impetus** to pro-Westerns modernizers, who toppled him two years later . Japan became the first foreign nation to sign a treaty with the Seoul, in 1876; the second was the U.S., in 1882, thanks to the skillful diplomacy of Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt. ||

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