Imperialist advocates like Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge argued that America should acquire colonies because
a. they would be places where America's surplus population could settle.
b. in the Darwinian struggle for power, only the strongest and "fittest" nations would survive.
c. they would provide strategic defense for the U.S. coasts.
d. America's founding values were based on expansion and domination.
e. America's superior culture should be spread around the world.
b
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