A Group of Historians Known as the New Left Revisionists

question 78

Multiple Choice

A group of historians known as the New Left revisionists argued that the United States' burst of overseas expansion of the 1890s

• A) was motivated by naive democratic idealism.
• B) was necessary to maintain an international balance of power.
• C) was designed to create an informal empire that would guarantee American economic dominance of foreign markets and investments.
• D) sought to build a colonial political empire.
• E) was motivated by racist "civilizing" to conquer and Christianize "primitive" blacks, Indians, and Latin American Spanish populations.

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