USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

[SOURCES]
Which statement listed below reflects an anti-imperialist perspective?

(A) Take up the white man’s burden

(B) Speak softly and carry a big stick.

(C) ** It is not necessary to own a people to trade with them.

(D) The trade of the world must and shall be ours.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The League’s political platform claims that the “forcible subjugation of any people” is un-American and unjust, and it argues that native populations should be able to govern themselves without interference by outside governments.

Concept note-2: -Both a desire for new markets for its industrial products and a belief in the racial and cultural superiority of Americans motivated the United States’ imperial mission.