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Which of the following arguments could have been used to support the U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines? 1. The United States needed naval bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific and new territory for businesses. 2. The United States needed to stop the spread of communism. 3. The United States should be the first Western country to build a colonial empire. 4. The United States needed to help nations that were struggling economically.
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1 and 4.
Explanation: Contemporary supporters argued for strategic naval bases and access to new markets (1) and used paternalistic “civilizing” rhetoric—e.g., “benevolent assimilation” and the White Man’s Burden—to justify annexation as helping weaker peoples (4). Stopping communism (2) was not a rationale in 1898, and (3) is false as phrased—American expansionists wanted an empire but were not claiming the U.S. should be the “first Western” colonial power.
Explanation: Contemporary supporters argued for strategic naval bases and access to new markets (1) and used paternalistic “civilizing” rhetoric—e.g., “benevolent assimilation” and the White Man’s Burden—to justify annexation as helping weaker peoples (4). Stopping communism (2) was not a rationale in 1898, and (3) is false as phrased—American expansionists wanted an empire but were not claiming the U.S. should be the “first Western” colonial power.
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