What Did the United States Expect to Gain by Sending

question 3

Multiple Choice

What did the United States expect to gain by sending a naval fleet to Japan in 1853?

• A) The right to grow opium on Japanese soil
• B) The acquisition of Japan as a U.S.colony
• C) The right to fish in the waters surrounding Japan
• D) The opening of Japanese ports for trade

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Definitions:

Moral Realism

The philosophical position that ethical statements are objectively true or false and that moral facts exist independently of our perception of them.

Heritability

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Hypersensitivity

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Transitivity

The ability in logic and mathematics to understand that if a relationship exists between A and B, and B and C, then that relationship exists between A and C.