1. Why do you think the United States and Europe wanted to open Asia up to international trade? What made Asia an ideal place for trade?

As noted before, Asia was a large market, with strategical trading posts, and luxury products such as tea and porcelain. The quality of the Asian manufacturing was the reason for the ideal place for trade, which progressively was balanced in favor of the West.

1.) Asia is very populated which meant more money for them if they could open up trading ports and such.

2) Asia had things like gunpowder, silk, spices, basically what was considered rare goods at the time.

Asia had access to many things that were impossible to find in Europe such as various spices and Silk. They also had the technology to produce high-quality paper. This all made people want to trade with Asians and since they were pretty closed there were many middle men in trading.

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i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years

unlimited governmental powers

explanation:

unlimited governmental powers was not a feature of the new state governments. state governments in the u.s. are structured in the same way as the federal government, with executive, legislative, and judicial branches.