The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

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The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth.It stimulates the hearts and sharpens the faculties not of our fellow-citizens alone,but of the nations of Europe and of their rulers.While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions,let us not be unmindful that liberty is power;that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon the earth,and that the tenure of power by man is ,in the moral purposes of his Creator,upon condition that is shall be excercised to ends of beneficience,to improve the condition of himself and his fellowmen."
John Quincy Adams,1825
-John Quincy Adams' comparison of the United States to other European governments reveals

• A) that persistent inter-imperial tension threatened American national security.
• B) the rise of American nationalism.
• C) the widespread influence of the American Revolution on other governments.
• D) the popularity of interventionist foreign policy in this era.

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