The contributions of this man, more than any other, helped the U.S. Navy become the third strongest naval power at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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The contributions of this man, more than any other, helped the U.S. Navy become the third strongest naval power at the turn of the nineteenth century.
A) William Seward
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Alfred Thayer Mahan
D) Frederick Jackson Turner

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C) Alfred Thayer Mahan

Alfred Thayer Mahan was a naval officer and historian whose writings on naval strategy and the importance of sea power greatly influenced naval policy and military strategy, contributing significantly to the emergence of the U.S. Navy as a powerful naval force by the turn of the nineteenth century.