History

Sylvia Duran

19 June, 11:55

The expansionist foreign policy of the United States during the late nineteenth century included a strong element of racial ideology. These racial overtones were evident because the Americans

A. felt that the native people's religions were superior in some ways to their own.

B. thought that they were culturally superior to the people whose land was being taken.

C. believed that they could learn from the people whose countries were being colonized.

D. assumed that the native people would provide leaders to run the new colonial governments.