Correct answer choice is :
B) To protect American business interests
Explanation:
The 19th century was a time of the political revolution. Captivity was eliminated, and the Second Industrial Revolution began to extensive urbanization and much greater levels of fertility, good, and success. European power made much of Asia and nearly all of Africa under a new rule. It was signed by the destruction of the Spanish, Napoleonic, Holy Roman and Mughal realms. This covered the way for the increasing importance of the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the United States, the German Empire, the French colonial empire and Meiji Japan, with the British boasting unchallenged dominance after 1815.
