Why did some people in the 1890s, and even today, consider late nineteenth-century American foreign policy to be an “aberration”?
A) As a democratic republic founded on the idea of freedom, the United States had no right to deny independence to other countries by annexation.
B) The United States had never previously expanded its territory so rapidly.
C) The United States had once been a small country of just thirteen states, so expanding to new lands and creating new states was considered an aberration.
D) As a democratic republic founded on the idea of freedom, the United States had the obligation to seek the same rights for countries around the world.
E) As a former colony, the United States understood the challenges of gaining independence and could better assist new nations than Europe could.
Answer: A
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