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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Definitions:

Filtration

A method for separating solids from liquids or gases using a filter medium that allows only the fluid to pass through while retaining the solid particles.

Osmosis

The movement of water through a semipermeable membrane from an area of low solute concentration to an area of high solute concentration.

Distillation

A process of purifying liquids through heating and cooling, separating components based on differences in boiling points.

Flooding

An overflow of water onto land that is normally dry, often the result of heavy rain, snowmelt, or obstruction of water flow.