The Treaty of Kanagawa was the first treaty between Japan and the United States that was signed by Commodore Matthew Perry and Shoguante representatives of the Japanese government on March 31st 1854.
Getting kicked out of Canada, then retreating before the Canadian militia and a few regular British troops.
Then there was the embarrassment of the Royal Navy sailing up American rivers to threaten the major towns and cities.
Then there was the occupation of land from the Great Lakes to the Caribbean.
We shall overcome is the answer
The correct answer is "inflation". During the Great Inflation of the 1970s the stock market lost 40% in an 18-month period. Economic growth was at one of its lowest points which caused that unemployment reached two digits in the United States. This was a consequence of the easy-money policies of the American central bank, designed to generate full employment but resulting in generating inflation.
