America was experiencing an industrial expansion and from that, wanted more markets to sell their goods to. While they were already trading with England and other European countries, they desired diversity. After beginning trade in China, the Americans essentially began to feel left out caused by the already present European influence. From China, America learned of Japan and its peculiar isolated states. A main goal of the Americans was to attempt to gain exclusive rights to a once isolated state. America’s passive trade system without imperialism supported Japan’s steps toward modernization of internal affairs to avert the sour outcome of China and India.
