During the Last Years of the Nineteenth Century, the United

Multiple Choice

During the last years of the nineteenth century, the United States responded to events in China by

A) sending an American gunboat to force the Manchu dynasty to capitulate.
B) requesting equal trading privileges and the opening of trading ports in China.
C) bombing the capital until Chinese terrorists surrendered.
D) sending covert aid to the Harmonious Righteous Fists in an effort to overthrow the anti-Western Manchu empress.
E) demanding that an arbitration commission be established.