Imperialism: Debates

AP US History· difficulty 4/5

The Anti-Imperialist League (1898) included

  • A

    Religious clergy alone, who framed annexation purely as a violation of Christian missionary aims

  • B

    Only sitting senators and congressmen who feared overseas commitments would weaken Congress

  • C

    Former Confederate sympathizers seeking to undermine Union expansion of federal authority

  • D

    Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and others who opposed American empire on moral and constitutional grounds

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Explanation

Their concerns about empire's effect on democracy resonate today.

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