I believe the correct answer was grain, as Egypt was known for its healthy fields near the mile and delta rivers.
Answer: The United States had taken possession of the Philippines (as well as Guam and Puerto Rico) in 1898, after winning the Spanish-American War. Thus US interest in Asia was heightened.
At the same time, other nations had begun competing for "spheres of influence" in trade access with China.
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The Open Door policy was issued by the United States in 1899-1900 as a series of dispatches from the US Secretary of State to other nations that had trading interests in China -- Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia. The policy reasserted earlier agreements that all countries should have equal access to ports in China, without undue preference to "spheres of influence" for one nation or another. The United States was seeking to maintain an equal footing with other nations in the access to trade in China.
Many Western politicians together with many Germans and ordinary people in the West, as well as in the East, called this wall the wall of shame. It was called like this because an actual wall was built in the middle of a very important and historically significant city to divide it into two halves.
The correct answer for your case is C - many called it a 'wall of shame'.
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because they are foreign countries and the americans would rather gain trust in them before they make deals with them.
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