whether they deliberately goaded Japan into attacking them, and by some accounts deliberately keeping our guard down at Pearl Harbor to maximize damage sustained to get the populace behind all out war is an open debate.
A couple of articles on each side:
How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor
https://mises.org/library/how-us-economic-warfare-provoked-japans-attack-pearl-harbor
How Roosevelt Attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor
Myth Masquerading as History
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/fall/butow.html