The following questions focus on the quotation below. "Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of
the country demands it. An increasing volume of public sentiment demands it. The position of the
United States, between the two great oceans, will soon be strengthened by the growth of the
European colonies in the Pacific, by the advancing civilization of Japan, and by the rapid peopling of
our Pacific States with men who have all the aggressive spirit of the advanced line of national
progress."
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a.
Alfred T. Mahan, "The United States Looking
Outward," 1890
Which of the following people would most likely support Mahan's ideas? (4.1)
Someone favoring U. S. annexation of island territories following the Spanish-American
War
b. Someone favoring the Great Migration
Someone favoring protective tariffs
d. Someone favoring war with Mexico
C.