(A) Guam
(B) Alaska
(C) Puerto Rico
(D) ** Philippines
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Concept note-1: -Terms in this set (33) Which of the following territorial acquisitions was the MOST controversial? b. Puerto Rico, as citizenship rights were not granted to the people living in this territory.
Concept note-2: -The annexation of the Philippines was controversial, as many Americans did not wish for an empire and believed the U.S. should be democratic, not imperialistic.
Concept note-3: -The league argued against militarization and the creation of an overseas American Empire and asserted that the principles the United States had been founded upon needed to extend to foreign policy as well.
Concept note-4: -On June 15, 1898, the Anti-imperialist league formed to fight U.S. annexation of the Philippines, citing a variety of reasons ranging from the economic to the legal to the racial to the moral.
Concept note-5: -Some anti-Imperialists preferred to remain distant from the Philippine project not because they believed in the right of the Filipino population to self-govern, but because they did not believe in the people themselves.