In the Philippine Insurrection, the United States
a. easily put down the insurrection of a small minority of Filipino people
b. with great difficulty suppressed a revolt that the majority of the Filipino people supported
c. defended the islands against the attempt of the former Spanish rulers to retake them
d. protected the inhabitants from the efforts of the Japanese to take over the islands.
e. crushed the rebellion with a great loss of American forces.
ANS: B
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