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Question 1: Explain why a historian might not think that this passage reflects the American

public’s mood regarding overseas expansion at the time?

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Question 2: Three documents are described below. Explain whether each document could be

used to support this newspaper’s account of American public opinion about overseas expansion.

If the document could not be used to support the newspaper’s account, explain why not.

a.) A letter to the U.S. President in December 1898 from a prominent political figure in the

Philippines complaining about the U.S. occupation of his country.

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“The country has begun to show signs of antagonism to expansion. The glamour of adding

foreign colonies to our home territory dazzled the people, highly strung by brilliant victories

over Spain: and at first the imperialistic idea took possession of them. But, since they have

had time to meditate on the matter, the glamour has, to a large extent, died away; and, having

begun to weigh the disadvantages of the acquisition of such territory as the Philippines

against the glory of the possession, they are inclining to change their minds and to believe that

we’d be better without the encumbrance of these Pacific isles, with their hordes of semi-

savages.”

Source: An article titled “Anti-Expansion Sentiment,” published on December 8, 1898 in The

Conservative, a newspaper in Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Source: An English visitor’s description of African Americans on the streets of New York

City in the 1850s.

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b.) An 1898 New York newspaper article celebrating the U.S. victory over Spain.

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c.) An 1898 letter to the editor of a Washington, D.C. newspaper opposing the war in the

Philippines from an anti-imperialist organization whose membership included hundreds

of prominent Americans.

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