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clippers! · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

President McKinley justified American acquisition of the Philippines primarily by emphasizing that

a. the need to take care of and Christianize the dispossessed, poor, and non-Christian Filipinos.
b. the electoral success of the Republican party depended on their acquisition.
c. the United States would gain key naval bases there.
d. the Philippines were spoils of war and America's by right of conquest.
e. there was no acceptable alternative to their acquisition.

Question 2

Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of

a. Santa Anna.
b. Goliad.
c. the Alamo.
d. San Jacinto.
e. the Rio Grande.