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Perry help the United States expand its influence in Asia as he negotiated the first treaty between the United States and Japan (Kanagawa Treaty).
The Kanagawa Treaty was signed on March 31, 1854 between Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States and the authorities of Japan, in the Japanese port of Shimoda. This treaty ended with 251 years of Japan's isolation and, at the same time, with its policy of exclusion (Sakoku), thus opening the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to trade with the United States, guaranteeing the safety of American shipwrecks and establishing a permanent consul.
Most likely, the lavish style of the elite class, as well as the horrible conditions the peasants and common people had to face and the taxes they had to pay (because most of the French money went into helping the Americans during the American Revolution, and the French were in very deep debt after it.) But, it was also inspired by the Enlightenment, as well as liberal and radical ideas
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