The natives had been angered by treaties imposed by Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens.
But before Japan could decide on its own foreign trade policy, it first had to get rid of the unequal treaties imposed by the imperial powers in the 1850s.
That treaty, imposed on the dying Ottoman Empire, set off a burst of patriotic outrage among Turks.
Inequality of status was symbolized by the treaties imposed on Japan when the country was first opened to foreign intercourse.
Political, military and economic organization was to be based on German domination, with commercial treaties imposed on countries like Poland and Ukraine.
When the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they declared the Protocol of Lisbon to be invalid as an "unequal treaty" imposed by foreigners on China.
Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal, that is the Franks.
Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the new French territory did not recognize the authority of the treaties imposed upon them.
China agrees in an unequal treaty imposed on it to allow missionaries to proselytize throughout the country.
The Frankish king was expected to enforce the treaty imposed upon the Lombards by his father Pepin, and drive them back to their own territories.