As part of the Treaty of Paris, the French<span> gave all their land on the American continent to Britain. The British decided to play a more active role over the colonists. Unfortunately, this included taxing the colonists to pay for the </span>war<span>.</span>
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U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry opened American trade relations with Japan in 1854. President Theodore Roosevelt brokered a 1905 peace treaty in the Russo-Japanese War that was favorable to Japan. The two signed a Commerce and Navigation Treaty in 1911. Japan had also sided with the U.S., Great Britain, and France during World War I.
During that time, Japan also embarked on forming an empire modeled after the British Empire. Japan made no secret that it wanted economic control of the Asia-Pacific region.
By 1931, however, U.S.-Japanese relations had soured. Japan's civilian government, unable to cope with the strains of the global Great Depression, had given way to a militarist government. The new regime was prepared to strengthen Japan by forcibly annexing areas in the Asia-Pacific. It started with China.
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The isolation period in Japan, known in Japanese as Sakoku, meaning "closed country", started in 1639 by Tokugawa lemitsu, the third Shōgun (military dictator) of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The period of Sakoku lasted until 1853, when American Navy Official Mathew Perry use military force to compel Japan to open its ports to trade.
During this period, the only contact that Japan had with the world was through with China through the port of Nagasaki, and with the Dutch, who had a small factory in the town of Dejima.
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Hillary Clinton surpassed Donald Trump by more than 2 million votes, but lost the electoral college 306 to 232. In raw votes, it was the largest popular-vote lead in history for a candidate who lost the election. The nature of the results has again stirred up debate about the merits of using the electoral college system.
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