Read the two quotes below. Then answer the question.

In bringing order to the Philippines, our soldiers added a new page to the honor-roll of American history, and they incalculably benefited the islanders themselves. Under the wise administration of Governor Taft the islands now enjoy a peace and liberty of which they have hitherto never even dreamed.

-President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901

I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem.

-Mark Twain, 1900

The difference in opinion between Roosevelt and Twain centers on how the US takeover affects

A) the Filipino people.

B) the Philippine government.

C) the US economy.

D) US Manifest Destiny.

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Cooper Knox

7 November, 13:29

Read the two quotes below. Then answer the question.

In bringing order to the Philippines, our soldiers added a new page to the honor-roll of American history, and they incalculably benefited the islanders themselves. Under the wise administration of Governor Taft the islands now enjoy a peace and liberty of which they have hitherto never even dreamed.

-President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901

I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem.

-Mark Twain, 1900

The difference in opinion between Roosevelt and Twain centers on how the US takeover affects

A) the Filipino people.

B) the Philippine government.

C) the US economy.

D) US Manifest Destiny.

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Randall · Answer 1

The correct answer should be

A) the Filipino people.

Roosevelt states that the United States are there to free the Filipino people who have been oppressed, even going as far as to claim that they've never dreamed of having such freedom, while Mark Twain claims that they will only subjugate and oppress the Filipino people themselves.