USA HISTORY

If you are opposed to the gaining of colonies by the U.S. you are called

(A) Isolationism

(B) ** Anti-Imperialism

(C) Imperialism

(D) Nationalism

Concept note-1: -ANTI-IMPERIALISTS. This term is used generally to connote those who resisted or disapproved of American colonialist impulses at various moments and especially those who opposed U.S. colonial expansion after the Spanish-American War.

Concept note-2: -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-3: -The anti-imperial movements that developed everywhere were nationalist, in the sense that they all struggled to form independent nation-states, and were inspired by a sense of collective national unity, forged in confrontation with imperialism.