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Why were members of the Anti-Imperialist League primarily concerned about acquisition of the Philippines?
 
  A) They felt that the islands offered little strategic importance to the United States.
  B) They disagreed with the concept of giving Filipinos the right to self-government.
  C) They feared that a European power would try to colonize the Philippines and declare war.
  D) They thought that undeveloped Asian countries would not be good markets for American
  industrialized goods.

Question 2

What made Emmett Till's 1955 murder in Mississippi different from previous racist killings of African Americans in the South?
 
  A) This was the first time that a black teenager tried to advance the Civil Rights Movement.
  B) Emmet Till was the youngest African American victim of racist violence in the United States.
  C) Till's family decided to fight back by publicizing his battered body and speaking in court.
  D) The jury failed to convict the accused murderers.

Question 3

Why did William Jennings Bryan ask anti-imperialist Democrats to support ratification of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War?
 
  A) He wanted the United States to grant the Philippines independence.
  B) He knew that annexing Cuba would improve the American economy.
  C) He wanted American Christian values spread to the Philippines and Cuba.
  D) He wanted Filipinos, Cubans, and Hawaiians to become American citizens.

Question 4

These political cartoons depicting attacks on Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri (top) and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts (bottom) by Southern politicians indicate that events in Congress in the 1850s provide evidence of the __________
 
  . A) fervent passions about slavery that made it difficult to find compromise
  B) Southern tendency toward brutality
  C) proclivity toward violence that made the Civil War inevitable
  D) weakness of antislavery Northerners



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Reply 2 on: Sep 21, 2019
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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