Answer is A.... its designed to regulate colonial trade and enabled England to collect duties (taxes) in the Colonies. American Colonies Index.
The US intelligence beforehand had deciphered messages laying out the Japanese plan.
World War II the chief Allied powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China.
The leaders of the Allies were Franklin Roosevelt (the United States), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and Joseph Stalin (the Soviet Union).
