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
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Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and others who opposed American empire on moral and constitutional grounds
Explanation
Their concerns about empire's effect on democracy resonate today.