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[b]Propaganda like the posters above were created by the _____________ to garner support for American involvement in WWI.[/b]

..."But to hold it will be no mistake. Our largest trade henceforth must be with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean. More and more Europe will manufacture the most it needs, secure from its colonies the most it consumes. Where shall we turn for

consumers of our surplus? Geography answers the question. China is our natural

customer. She is nearer to us than to England, Germany, or Russia, the

commercial powers of the present and the future. They have moved nearer to

China by securing permanent bases on her borders. The Philippines give us a base at the door of all the East..."



          -Excerpt from Sen. Albert Beveridge's "On the War in Philippines" (1900)

[b]

Based on this excerpt, Sen. Beveridge could be considered a(n) _______.[/b]

Entry Written by Mark Twain in the New York Herald, October 15, 1900:



[i]I left these shores, at Vancouver, a red-hot imperialist. I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with he Rockies. Why not spread its wings over the Phillippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do



I said to myself, here are a people who have suffered for three centuries. We can make them as free as ourselves, give them a government and country of their own, put a miniature of the  American constitution afloat in the Pacific, start a brand new republic to take its place among the free nations of the world. It seemed to me a great task to which had addressed ourselves.



But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Phillippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. . .



It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.."  [/i]



[b]What reasons might an imperialist living in the late 1800s used to argue against what Mark Twain is suggesting in this document? ____________[/b]

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[b]The sinking of the Sussex led to the issuance of the Sussex Pledge.  How did this appease America and keep them out of war? _______[/b]

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[b]Why are these Hawaiians protesting outside of the Presidential Palace in Honolulu? ____________[/b]