20) Which is the BEST example of an economic motive behind America's increasing expansionism and imperialism in the years leading
up to World War I?
A)
Imperialism opened foreign markets for American agricultural and
industrial products, easing economic tensions at home.
B)
Americans believed that their civilization was superior to those of Latin
America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
o
America sought to assert itself as a naval power in the early twentieth
century and desired naval bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Growing nationalism fostered the desire to expand American military
power to compete with other nations which had long been engaged in
imperialist activities.
D)