What conflicting visions divided imperialists and anti-imperialists?
What will be an ideal response?
Economically, imperialists argued for the strategic and commercial importance of colonies, particularly the Philippines. They maintained that "trade follows the flag"; that is, a U.S. colony in the Philippines would strengthen the United States' trading relationship with China. Anti-imperialists emphasized that maintaining distant colonial outposts like the Philippines would be expensive and that there was no market for American goods in undeveloped Asian countries like China.
Ideologically, imperialists used the theory of social Darwinism to argue that, as in the case of the Native American peoples that were dominated in the push west, it was a moral responsibility for white Americans to civilize and educate the peoples of colonial lands. Anti-imperialists argued that imposing imperial rule on other countries would violate the principles outlined in America's own Constitution, summarized in the slogan "the Constitution follows the flag."
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