This question is a nightmare. The right answer isn't really there. A short answer would be that New England didn't want a second war with Great Britain. There was a real gaffuffle about pressing American seaman into British Navy vessels that cause Jefferson to impose an embargo. All of this centered about the war of 1812.
The choice is between A and B. I would pick A, but I can't eliminate B.
C and D are not really amongst the reasons, particularly C.
Oil, metal, and rubber. Japan as a country could not produce these resources. In fact Japan has no natural resources except for some wood, and fish.
Japan wanted to be the leader in Asia, and everybody bow to them.
Answer: the correct answer is C) one of them did not actually cause the other to occur.
Explanation: a correlation between variables, however, does not automatically indicates that the change in one variable is the reason or the cause of the change in the values of the other variable. Causation indicates that one event is the result of the occurrence of the other event; i.e. there is a causal linkage between the two events.