This act was hated by the business industry because it was a general trade embargo on all foreign nations that was enacted by the United States Congress. ... During the Napoleonic Wars, rival nations Britain and France targeted neutral American shipping as a means to disrupt the trade of the other nation.
B. They wanted to replace their own culture with the colonizers' culture
is not one of the reasons many Pacific Islands still have close ties to their former colonizers'.
The answer is hook! I know this because I love English. The hook is the first sentence of an essay. It makes the readers want to read it. Hope this helped. Have a great day!