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The excerpt best supports the conclusion that in the 1850s, the United States government
a) sought to prevent Japan from forming a naval alliance with the British empire
b) attempted to monopolize Japanese commerce and to exclude the participation of Europeans in trade
c) was willing to intimidate Asian countries like Japan to secure economic opportunities
d) was interested in making the government of Japan more democratic
