The United States response to events in China during the years of the nineteenth century was to
A. Send an American gunboat to force the Manchu dynasty to capitulate
B. Request equal trading
privileges and announce the desire to preserve China's
territorial integrity
C. Demand that an arbitration commission be established
D. Send covert aid to the Harmonious Righteous Fists in an effort to overthrow the anti-
Western Manchu empress