USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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True or False Labor leaders agreed with anti-imperialists because of fears over job competition.

(A) ** True

(B) False, Labor leaders needed more workers.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -It included among its members such notables as Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, William James, David Starr Jordan, and Samuel Gompers with George S. Boutwell, former secretary of the Treasury and Massachusetts, as its president.

Concept note-2: -The Anti-Imperialist League opposed annexation on economic, legal, and moral grounds. The original organization was founded in New England and was absorbed by a new national Anti-Imperialist League. Prominent statesman George S. Boutwell served as president from the League’s inception in 1898 to his death in 1905.